[Blog] Structural Abstractions in Brains and Graphs

[Marko Rodriguez]

Hi,

I recently finished a new blog post for those that are interested.

http://thinkaurelius.com/2012/05/08/structural-abstractions-in-brains-and-graphs/

The general idea is that simply seeing a graph from the perspective of vertices and edges is not sufficient to understand a graph -- especially as graphs scale to the multi-billion range. A similar realization has already become apparent in neuroscience and I believe that much can be borrowed from neuroscience when studying and designing graph systems. I make some analogies between brains and graphs that hopefully better articulate this thesis.

Enjoy!,

Marko.

http://markorodriguez.com