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Python Data Science Essentials
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Python Data Science Essentials

by Alberto Boschetti
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
258 pages
5h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5. Social Network Analysis

Social Network Analysis, usually referred to as SNA, models and studies the relationships of a group of social entities, which exist in the form of a network. An entity can be a person, a computer, or a webpage, and a relation can be a like, link, or a friendship (that is, a connection between the entities).

In this chapter, you'll learn about the following:

  • Graphs, since social networks are usually represented in this form
  • Important algorithms that are used to gain insights from a graph
  • How to load, dump, and sample large graphs

Introduction to graph theory

Basically, a graph is a data structure that's able to represent relations in a collection of objects. Under this paradigm, the objects are the graph's nodes and ...

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