Graphing Thirty Years of Gaming Collaborations

ShannonA writes "The world of designer board games, including such classics as The Settlers of Catan and Modern Art, is full of creative collaborations between designers. In a new article, Six Degrees of Collaboration, Shannon Appelcline traces these collaborative connections across a half-dozen countries and over thirty years of time." Interesting to see how relatively small a part of the table-top gaming industry really is.

In a similar vein

[strider44]

One of my maths lecturers talked about how they graphed a degrees of seperation of maths papers, where connections in the graph would be where the people collaborated on a paper. He was split from Albert Einstein by 3 degrees as I remember.

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[HoneyBunchesOfGoats]

That would be the Erdos number [wikipedia.org].