A graph is a network of nodes and edges, not a diagram

Some readers think a graph is a picture with boxes; the book means a network, nodes and the edges between them, and shows it with visualisations. Of the three things people mean by the word (networks for analysis, graph databases for storage, semantics for meaning) the book uses the first and the third.

Decided by. Dinis, in Everything is connected; the editor records it in the vault

Where it comes from

Everything is connected A graph is not a diagram (article)
The graphs books 'In this book a graph is a network: nodes and the edges that connect them. Never a chart, never a figure'; 'A node connected to nothing is literally meaningless' (newsroom)
graphs the 2018 outline: 'requires an ability to think in nodes and edges' (book-2018)

What it answers in the 2018 book

graphs answered outline, Concepts

Where it goes

Chapter Everything is connected: graphs, part Before you start (drafting); topic Graphs, memory and your future self.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: The whodunit is the easiest way in: the detective's board is a graph, A map is a graph with positions; a Wardley map is a graph with context, Graphs nest, and so does the world: groups of groups are the abstraction layers we think in, You can start anywhere: it matters that you start, and get movement, The 2018 book was already there: Dot Language and AST were graphs without saying so, Source code is a fractal semantic graph, and a review should read every layer of it.

Node idea:a-graph-is-not-a-diagram in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.