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Network Science with Python

By : David Knickerbocker
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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

Getting started with networks

If you want to jump into your first original network analysis project, you need to first think up something that you are curious about. With social network analysis, you are often looking to build a sociogram, a visual map of how humans interact. So, for your first network project, you could ask something such as the following:

  • How do the characters from <book> interact with each other?
  • Do the different animals in the book Animal Farm only interact with the same type of animals? Do humans only interact with certain types of animals, or do they interact with all types of animals?
  • What does the Twitterverse of my own town look like?
  • What does a network visualization of ingredients to meals look like? How does this differ for different regions in the world? What does a network visualization of ingredients to region look like?
  • What does the Twitter social network that exists around a certain politician look like? What does the...