--- description: On what would have been the 180th birthday of the Venn Diagram creator title: Today's Google Doodle Celebrates the Art of the Venn Diagram image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Today's Google Doodle Celebrates the Art of the Venn Diagram by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 4, 2014 2:42 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 4, 2014 2:42 PM CUT  Correlation has never looked this cute. Google created an interactive illustration in honor of the 180th birthday of logician and philosopher John Venn — best known, of course, for inventing the circles known as the Venn diagram. The doodle allows you to choose from five different subjects (mammals and sea life, for example) along with five descriptors (thrives in cold, has wings, etc.) and then see the resulting correlation. Okay, it sounds kind of boring, but it’s really quite cute and whimsical. Check out some of the diagrams:    Though the concept behind this seems pretty simple, it took quite a while to flesh out, the doodle team explains in a [blog post](https://www.google.com/doodles/john-venns-180th-birthday "undefined"). But what ultimately fueled the final version? “Sound logic and silliness.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3079364/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-the-art-of-the-venn-diagram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3079364/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-the-art-of-the-venn-diagram/"},"headline":"Today's Google Doodle Celebrates the Art of the Venn Diagram","datePublished":"2014-08-04T14:42:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:31.404Z","description":"Its inventor, John Venn, would have been 180 today.","url":"https://time.com/3079364/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-the-art-of-the-venn-diagram/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Google"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3079364/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-the-art-of-the-venn-diagram/","name":"Today's Google Doodle Celebrates the Art of the Venn Diagram"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3079364/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-the-art-of-the-venn-diagram/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3079364/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-the-art-of-the-venn-diagram/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```