Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

Superhero social networks

We have a superhero social network that someone constructed, just by looking at what comic books characters appeared in together. So the idea is that if a comic book character appeared together with another comic book character in the same comic book, they're considered to be friends, they have a co-occurrence and they are therefore connected. You may have characters connected in complex patterns. This is really like a social graph that we're dealing with. Let's say the Hulk appeared in a comic book that had Thor in it and he also appeared in another comic book that had Iron Man in it. Maybe Iron Man and Thor appear together but all three of them never appear together in the same comic book. Maybe Spider-Man's off ...