Aji and Joël join forces to discuss graph and tree structures, and their connection to the emergent properties, attributes and qualities you can find from a largely connected group of data.

Joël dives into their recent graphs and tree work through a contracting system, whilst Aji looks back at when he previously tried to serialise a graph or tree to a database.

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 &lt;p&gt;Aji and Joël join forces to discuss graph and tree structures, and their connection to the emergent properties, attributes and qualities you can find from a largely connected group of data.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Joël dives into their recent graphs and tree work through a contracting system, whilst Aji looks back at when he previously tried to serialise a graph or tree to a database.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;—&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Watch &lt;a href="https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/state-is-the-first-decision-you-never-made?back_to=/events/blue-ridge-ruby-2026?scroll_top=668&amp;amp;back_to_title=Blue+Ridge+Ruby+2026" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Joël’s Blue Ridge Ruby&lt;/a&gt; talk here, or &lt;a href="https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/ruby-internals-a-guide-for-rails-developers" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Matheus’ Ruby Internal&lt;/a&gt; talk from last year here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There’s still time to secure your place at thoughtbot’s upcoming UK meet ups over the next month.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://luma.com/c4e6hkqt" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;London Tech Leader Meetup&lt;/a&gt; - Tuesday June 23rd&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://luma.com/tog1jb58" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Brighton Tech Leader Meetup&lt;/a&gt; - Wednesday June 24th&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://brightonruby.com/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Brighton Ruby&lt;/a&gt; - Thursday June 25th&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://evolve.siliconbrighton.com/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Evolve&lt;/a&gt; - Friday June 26th&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your hosts for this episode have been thoughtbot’s own &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-quenneville-96b18b58/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Joël Quenneville&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/doodlingdev/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Aji Slater&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you would like to support the show, head over to our &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thoughtbot" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;GitHub page&lt;/a&gt;, or check out &lt;a href="https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;our website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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Aji and Joël discuss graph and tree structures, their connection to the emergent properties, attributes and qualities found from a largely connected group of data.

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503: Seeing the Graph for the Trees

503: Seeing the Graph for the Trees

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