Considering the value for clearness of thought of counting, measuring and weighing, it is not surprising to find that in the seventeenth century, and even at the end of the sixteenth, the advance of the sciences was accompanied by increased exactness of measurement and by the invention of instruments of precision.

Walter Libby, American writer

Chapter 8Measuring Networks

Almost everything you have seen so far in this book has been about constructing complex networks, not about analyzing them. In other words, it was CN, but not CNA. This chapter delves into CNA and introduces some important CNA toolsets. You will learn how to measure dyadic, triadic, and global properties of network nodes: distances, loops, clustering coefficient, assortativity, ...

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