Alan Turing Institute: The dizzying potential of dynamic graphs

Graphs have attracted significant interest in recent years. You are probably hearing about all the buzz and how everything is becoming encapsulated around graphs.

One of the most-famous game theories conceptualised all the way back in 1950s. Prisoners dilemma is a framework that elegantly shows when you pursues your own self-interest, the outcome is worse than if you were to co-operate. However, reality has it that people often opt for the choice that they believe benefits them the most (as any rational person would do). However, this comes at the high risk of disbenefiting everyone involved. Including yourself!

When first taking the plunge into the realm of graphs, moving away from the typical tabular view of the world, we quickly see how compelling an abstraction it can be.