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The Graph

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

A graph is a collection of items together with the connections between them — nothing more.

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A metro map: stations and track segments. The famously distorted geography bothers no rider, because only the connections carry information.

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Distance and position on the drawing mean nothing; reading them as facts is the map-reader's classic slip.

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  • Nothing — this is a starting point.

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