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Network Science with Python

Network Science with Python

By : David Knickerbocker
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Network Science with Python

Network Science with Python

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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)
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Part 1: Getting Started with Natural Language Processing and Networks
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Part 2: Graph Construction and Cleanup
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Part 3: Network Science and Social Network Analysis

Introducing web scraping

First, what even is web scraping, and who can do it? Anyone with any programming skill can do scraping using several different programming languages, but we will do this with Python. Web scraping is the action of harvesting content from web resources so that you may use the data in your products and software. You can use scraping to pull information that a website hasn’t exposed as a data feed or through an API. But one warning: do not scrape too aggressively; otherwise, you could knock down a web server through an accidental denial-of-service (DoS) attack. Just get what you need as often as you need it. Go slow. Don’t be greedy or selfish.

Introducing BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup is a powerful Python library for scraping anything that you have access to online. I frequently use this to harvest story URLs from news websites, and then I scrape each of these URLs for their text content. I typically do not want the actual HTML, CSS, or JavaScript...

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