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  Massive Graphs, Power Laws, and the World Wide Web

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L. Charles Biehl

September 2003, Volume 96, Issue 6, Page 434

Abstract:
This activity is an investigation that allows students to experience how a massive graph such as the World Wide Web grows over time and that allows them to explore its properties. Students create a visual model of such a graph and the data sets that model its structure.

Classification:
Statistics/Data Analysis
Graphs/Data Representation

Additional Keywords:
Graph Theory

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