For a few years, I’ve been sharing interesting networks as I come across them. Here is a gallery.
Social network and smoking habits. From: Michell, L., & Amos, A. (1997). Girls, pecking order and smoking. Social Science & Medicine, 44(12), 1861–1869.Susan Crawford’s 1971 communication network of sleep scientists.A network of human settlements attacked by nuclear weapons. From Doxiadis’ Ekistics (1968)A network of the locations of newspaper publishers and their readers. From Monkhouse & Wilkinson, Maps and Diagrams (1971).From Umberto Eco’s A Theory of Semiotics (1975).From Jeremy Boissevain’s social network classic Friends of Friends (1974).From Hillier & Hanson’s The Social Logic of Space (1984)From Coleman’s The Mathematics of Collective Action (1971).Rooms connected by adjacency in a Frank Lloyd Wright building. From March & Steadman’s The Geometry of Environment (1971).From Jaques Bertin’s Semiology of Graphics (1967).A foodweb from John Casti’s Complexification (1994).Temporal network of Czechoslovakia Air Transport flights (1933) from Tufte’s Envisioning Information.Migration patterns in Northern Africa from OECD’s An Atlas of the Sahara–Sahel.A network of penguins and their keepers at Sumida Aquarium.From Carlstein, Parkes, Thrift, Human Activity and Time Geography (1978). Uganda road network 1964 From: Tinkler. Perception and Nodality in Uganda (1970).Markets and trade links from Kenya’s Kisii district. LJ Wood, 1975. The functional structure of a rural market system. Geogr. Ann. B, 57, 109–118.Boardgame themed on Andrée’s 1897 ill-fated balloon expedition to the North Pole.GG Dumenton’s networks of institutions in the Soviet academia (1987).A network of elements of myths, from Claude Lévi-Strauss’s The Story of Lynx (1991).A network chart of the sciences and arts byt Christophe de Savigny (1587).Ecological theory connected to a networks. From R Levins, Am. Sci. 54:421–31 (1966).From: S. Haraldsdottir, S. Gupta, and R. M. Anderson. Preliminary studies of sexual networks in a male homosexual community in Iceland. J. Acquir. Immune. Defic. Syndr., 5(4):374–381, 1992.European postal routes in the 16th and 17th century.Social network of characters in a person’s dreams.This is an auxiliary graph in the theory of determinants. Essentially a 4-cycle with —o—o— subgraphs added to it. Maybee et al., SIAM J. Matrix Anal Appl 10(4), 500-519 (1989).Logistic network for Earth, Moon & Mars. Ishimatsu et al., J Spacecraft & Rockets 53 (2016), 25-38.Causal / narrative network of events in a life of a Nazi (collected 1934). Bearman, Stovel (2009) “Becoming a Nazi: A model for narrative networks” Poetics 27:69-90A partial game tree of a chess position. (Note that this is not really a tree in the sense that the same position occur at different nodes in the tree.) By world champion MM Botvinnik (1970) Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning.The Kula ring (gift exchange network of anthropology) Hage, J Polynesian Soc 86 (1977) 27Food web from: Pierce, Cushman, Hood. (1912) The insect enemies of the cotton boll weevil. US Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology Bulletin 100:99.Word-of-mouth spreading by Reingen (1987)Sex trafficking in NigeriaRogers’ Diffusion of Innovation 3rd ed.The network picture showing that HIV is a sexually transmitted disease. (Auerbach et al 1984).Kinship structures by Lévi-Strauss.
Petter Holme 