Truncate the Network
Why did you go through all those Wikipedia troubles? First, to construct a network of subjects related to complex networks—and here it is. Second, to find other significant topics related to complex networks. But what is the measure of significance?
You will discover a variety of network measures in Chapter 8, Measuring Networks. Some of them are excellent proxies for node importance. For now, let’s concentrate on a node indegree—the number of edges directed into the node. (In the same spirit, the number of edges directed out of the node is called outdegree.) The indegree of a node equals the number of HTML links pointing to the respective page. If a page has a lot of links to it, the topic of the page must be significant. ...
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