Book Image

Network Science with Python

By : David Knickerbocker
Book Image

Network Science with Python

By: David Knickerbocker

Overview of this book

Network analysis is often taught with tiny or toy data sets, leaving you with a limited scope of learning and practical usage. Network Science with Python helps you extract relevant data, draw conclusions and build networks using industry-standard – practical data sets. You’ll begin by learning the basics of natural language processing, network science, and social network analysis, then move on to programmatically building and analyzing networks. You’ll get a hands-on understanding of the data source, data extraction, interaction with it, and drawing insights from it. This is a hands-on book with theory grounding, specific technical, and mathematical details for future reference. As you progress, you’ll learn to construct and clean networks, conduct network analysis, egocentric network analysis, community detection, and use network data with machine learning. You’ll also explore network analysis concepts, from basics to an advanced level. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to identify network data and use it to extract unconventional insights to comprehend the complex world around you.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Natural Language Processing and Networks
5
Part 2: Graph Construction and Cleanup
9
Part 3: Network Science and Social Network Analysis

Summary

In this chapter, we covered what NLP is, how it has helped me, some common and advanced uses of NLP, and how a beginner can get started.

I hope this chapter gave you a rough idea of what NLP is, what it can be used for, what text analysis looks like, and some resources for more learning. This chapter is in no way the complete picture of NLP. It was difficult to even write the history, as there is just so much to the story and so much that has been forgotten over time.

Thank you for reading. This is my first time writing a book, and this is my first chapter ever written for a book, so this really means a lot to me! I hope you are enjoying this so far, and I hope I gave you an adequate first look into NLP.

Next up: network science and social network analysis!