Complex Network Analysis in Python

Appreciate Synthetic Networks

Synthetic networks are a cheap alternative to real-world, empiric networks. Unlike empiric networks that have to be scrupulously collected, either automatically or by hand, synthetic networks are generated by computer software (in our case, NetworkX). With proper adjustment through the right choice of the parameters of synthetic graph generators, you can produce networks of almost any type, resembling empiric networks to the point of confusion.

The following figure shows six generated “classic” networks. You saw almost all of them (except for the complete graph) in ​Know Thy Networks​. However, that figure was hand-programmed, but the following one is produced by the NetworkX graph generator functions. You will ...