Analyzing your personal social network
As we had mentioned before, Facebook is a massive social graph, connecting billions of users, brands and organizations. Consider your own Facebook account if you have one. You will have several friends who are your immediate connections, they in turn will have their own set of friends, and you might be friends with some of them and so on. You and your friends form the nodes of the network and edges determine the connections. In this section, we will analyze a small network of you and your immediate friends and also look at how we can extract and analyze some properties from the network. Before we jump into our analysis, we'll start by loading the necessary packages needed, which are mentioned in the following ...
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