Graphs Resources

Websites

Numb3rs episodes about Graph Theory (and Other Things)

Numbers covers the gamut of math and applied math topics, but there are ten episodes just about graph theory. Not bad by the numbers.

Planarity

Think you've got what it takes to make graphs planar? Test your skills using this game. It’s like untangling yarn, except without any guarantee you can fix it.

Graph Theory for Game Design

Graphs: great for finding paths and modeling things. This article will tell you everything about how video-games can use graphs to model a player’s choices and decisions.

How Online Mapping Systems Work

Bet you didn't know graph theory powers the Google Maps. Graphs speed everything up, and you can read all about it here.

Link All

Like the opposite of Planarity, this game makes you connect all the nodes into a graph. Between the two games, you should have all your nodes covered.

Articles

From Disease to Data, It’s a Small, Networked World

Not only will you find all the concepts you've seen in this learning guide, but this article's also going to tell you about a few way we're using graphs today. Aside from Facebook's friend graphs, of course.

Videos

"A Visual History of Human Knowledge"

If we were to over-generalize about human history, we'd say that humans love talking about themselves. This time Manuel Lin uses graphs to do it.

"Urban Network Analysis"

If urban planning's your jam, check out this video using graphs to model how people, roads, and buildings interact in cities.