How Big Data Carried Graph Theory into New Dimensions

I find these hands-on examples of hypergraphs quite informative [0][1]. The first one for intuiting some mathematical foundations and the second one for encoding a 'time' dimension in a flat plane (althought not strictly speaking a hyper graph). A hypergraph example of Les Miserables provided a good demonstration the d3-hypergraph package as well, but unfortunately the bl.ocks.org live examples aren't up anymore [2]. [0]: https://observablehq.com/@toja/hypercube-graphs [1]…

Neat, I did research in this area over a decade ago for the same customer as the people in the article. It is a really interesting area of theoretical computer science and we know more about it than the article conveys. This all started with the problem of analyzing real-world graphs with several trillion edges, back when big data was barely a thing. We used supercomputers, in fact, but those did not make it make it much more tractable. At…