Network Science with Python and NetworkX Quick Start Guide

Network science today

With its interdisciplinary nature, network science draws practitioners from a wide variety of backgrounds. At the time of writing this book, only a handful of universities offer programs dedicated to network science, so network scientists tend to be self-taught, or trained as sociologists, physicists, ecologists, and so on. My own path to network science was similarly convoluted. Once an aspiring physicist, I came to realize I cared more about people than atoms, and left grad school to work on technology for civic organizing. When I eventually came across network science, I was excited to find that it was a powerful tool for understanding group behavior, and that the skills I'd learned from physics transferred directly ...