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Enterprises that want to use powerful graph algorithms to discover relationships hidden in their data now have an easier path to get there thanks to the new data science library unveiled today by ...

Jacob Holm was flipping through proofs from an October 2019 research paper he and colleague Eva Rotenberg—an associate professor in the department of applied mathematics and computer science at the ...