I realize this may not really be the right place to ask this, but I can't really think of anywhere else to ask online.
Specifically, the type of chart that I'm wondering the name of would be a series of columns, a series of rows, and the cells for each cross reference would either have nothing, or an "X".
For example, if an automotive company wanted to create a chart of included features on their different offers.
Model | Electric Seats | A/C | Brakes
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Basic | | | X
Moderate | | X | X
Deluxe | X | X | X
Or, another example, if a clothing brand wanted to group shirt size by chest circumference:
| 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 40 | 45 | 50
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XS | X | X | | | | |
S | | X | X | | | |
M | | | X | X | | |
L | | | | X | X | |
XL | | | | | X | X |
XXL | | | | | | X | X
Thanks
This is called a "Carrol Diagram", named after Lewis Carrol, one of the first mathematics to deal with symbolic logic. He's the author of "Alice in Wonderland", but he was also a mathematician.
He felt they were superior to Venn Diagrams because his diagrams were better able to handle the complement of the union of all sets considered ; that is the set "outside" the circles on a standard Venn Diagram.