Network Science with Python and NetworkX Quick Start Guide

The evolution of network properties

Network snapshots can also be used to analyze the evolution of network properties over time. The following code creates snapshots of the Dutch Wikipedia at one-month intervals over the course of two years and calculates the average clustering of the network at each time:

year = 2001month = 10clustering = []for i in range(24):    date = '{}-{}-01'.format(year, month)    G = get_snapshot(G_wiki, date)    clustering.append(nx.average_clustering(G))    # Update month and year    month += 1    if month > 12:        month -= 12        year += 1

The results of the preceding code can be plotted using the following code:

# Create figureplt.figure(figsize=(7.5, 4))ax = plt.subplot(1, 1, 1)for spine in ax.spines.values(): spine.set_visible(True) ...