How Whitepages turned the phone book into a graph by Jean Villedieu.
From the post:
If you were born in the 1990’s or earlier, you are familiar with phone books. These books listed the phone numbers of the people living in a given area. When you wanted to contact someone you knew the name of, the phone book could help you find his number. Before people switched phones regularly and stopped caring about having a landline, this was important.
The “born in” line really hurt. 😉
This is a feel good story about graphs and an obvious use case. However, remember the average age of leadership training is forty-two (42) which puts them in the 1970’s. If you want to sell them on graphs, the phone book might not be a bad place to start.
Just saying.
I first saw this in a tweet by Gary Stewart.