Hidden Patterns: The Visual Journey of Networks

Have you ever wondered why one startup, one tweet, or one node in your product's user graph explodes while a thousand identical-looking others don't?
You've already run into Albert-László Barabási's work, whether you knew his name or not. He's the physicist who discovered scale-free networks: the finding that most real networks, from the web to your own social graph, run on a small number of massive hubs instead of evenly spread connections.
That's the math behind preferential attachment, and it's why the web, social networks, and citation networks all follow the same power law.
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