I'm sorry to be a cynic. I love graphs. The web is a graph, web pages are graphs, linked data, machine learning all use graphs. And they can look really cool. I especially loved the hyperbolic graphs that were the rage a decade or two ago. I don't know how many projects I've dropped this type of viz in. Then removed it, because there are three different reactions from end users: It's scary and confusing, it looks neat but it's never used, or it looks neat and it's clicked on a few times. I hope as we move into massive data they become digestable for ordinary UI, but until then they're mostly actually useful for specific edge cases.
