Dodge, M.: What does the Internet look like, Jellyfish perhaps? : Exploring a visualization of the Internet by Young Hyun of CAIDA (2001)
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- However, Hyun points out that it is still early days and over the next six months or so Walrus will be extended to include core functions beyond just visualizing raw topology graphs. For CAIDA, it is important to see performance measurements associated with the links; as Hyun notes, "you can imagine how important this is to our visualizations, given that we are almost never interested in the mere topology of a network." Walrus has not revealed much new scientific knowledge of the Internet thus far, although Hyun commented that the current visualization of topology "did make it easy to see the degree to which the network is in tangles how some nodes form large clusters and how they are seemingly interconnected in random ways." This random connectedness is perhaps what gives the Internet its organic look and feel. Of course this is not real shape of the Internet. One must always be wary when viewing and interpreting any particular graph visualization as much of the final "look and feel" results from subjective decisions of the analyst, rather than inherent in the underlying phenomena. As Hyun pointed out, "... the organic quality of the images derives almost entirely from the particular combination of the layout algorithm used and hyperbolic distortion." There is no inherently "natural" shape when visualizing massive data, such as the topology of the global Internet, in an abstract space. Somewhat like a jellyfish, maybe? ----
