Graph data science is when you want to answer questions, not just with your data, but with the connections between your data points — that’s the 30-second explanation, according to Alicia Frame.

In other words, graph can help you “connect the dots.” Examine the names of the data structures you are trying to analyze.

Direct Acyclic Graph or DAG may be it. What is DAG? DAG is a directed graph data structure that uses a topological ordering. The sequence can only go from earlier to later.

Soren Lassen, manager of the search infrastructure team at Facebook, described that "in computer science speak," the Social Graph is a graph data structure involving an "immense map" of people ...

The search for those higher-dimensional structures is where the math turns especially murky — and interesting. The higher-order analogue of a graph, for example, is called a hypergraph, and instead of ...

(For reference, according to Facebook engineers, the Social Graph is a graph data structure involving an "immense map" of people, places, and things and the connections between them.) ...