Python Data Science Essentials - Third Edition

Partitioning a network

Now, let's look at the way in which you can partition the network into multiple subnetworks of nodes. One of the most used algorithms is the Louvain method, which was specifically created to accurately detect communities in large graphs (with a million nodes). We will first introduce the modularity measure. This is a measure of the structure of the graph (it's not node-oriented), whose formal math definition is very long and complex and which is beyond the scope of this book (readers can find more information at https://sites.google.com/site/findcommunities/). It intuitively measures the quality of the division of a graph into communities, comparing the actual community linkage with a random one. The modularity score ...