ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

International Symposium on Graph Drawing

Imagine you are drawing a picture on paper. You start with one thing and then another thing, and you connect all the different things together. Now imagine that you are doing this on a very, very big piece of paper.

When people draw big pictures like this, sometimes they need to use something called a graph. This is like a map that shows how all the things in the picture are connected. A graph can help you see which things are far away from each other and which things are close together.

Sometimes people hold a big meeting called a symposium to talk about how to draw these kinds of big pictures. At the International Symposium on Graph Drawing, people from all over the world come together to share ideas and talk about how to draw graphs better.

They talk about things like which kinds of graphs are good for different kinds of pictures, and how to make the graphs look nice and neat. They also talk about how to make the graphs easier for people to understand.

This is a very important meeting because many people use graphs to make maps, show how different things are connected, and help us understand data better. So the people at the symposium are like artists who draw big pictures using special tools, and they want to make sure that their pictures look great and are helpful for everyone.