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Network Science with Python and NetworkX Quick Start Guide
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Network Science with Python and NetworkX Quick Start Guide

by Edward L. Platt
April 2019
Beginner
190 pages
4h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Nodes and affiliations

In the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, perhaps the most widely-known application of network science principles, the goal is to find a link between a given actor and the actor Kevin Bacon. For example, Jon Hamm can be connected to Kevin Bacon as follows: Jon Hamm was in Bridesmaids with Rose Byrne, who was in X-Men: First Class, with Kevin Bacon. This game takes place on a network. In one version of the network, nodes represent actors and edges represent movies that two actors both appeared in. This version of the network (let's call it the actor-actor network) is sufficient for finding Kevin Bacon, but it doesn't fully represent the relationships between actors and movies. Movies typically have a cast of many actors, ...

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