Like most data scientists and researchers, I spend most of my day in front of a computer. Most of the time, I’m either writing, reading or coding something exciting up. Over the past couple of years as a researcher / academic / data scientist, I’ve come to use a lot of software. Some fancy, others […]
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In a previous post, I walked through the basics on how to import a network into Gephi using a spreadsheet. As shown, this is an easy way to import data into Gephi in the form of a list of edges. As mentioned before, this method is also ideal if you’re working with external sources (e.g. […]
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Gephi, is an amazing piece of software for building and visualising different types of network. It is considered the go-to software for network analytics and visualisation and is widely used by those who study social networks, such as myself. I use Gephi almost on a daily basis. As well as producing some amazing visuals, Gephi […]
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There is an abundance of freely available datasets on the internet for pretty much anything and everything you can think of. In a previous blog post, we covered five different platforms for finding useful datasets. However, as mentioned in the post, there are times when you may need to collect data where it may be […]
Python is known for being able to do many different things due to the versatility of the programming language. One thing Python is particularly well-known for is its ability to receive data over the Web using the requests package (more information can be found here). The requests package enables users to perform basic HTTP requests […]
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So far in this series, we’ve gone through everything from creating a graph to analysing it. We have yet to visualise networks. To conclude this series, this blog post sets out to walk through the process of visualising networks using tools packaged into networkx Layouts Before we draw the graph, we need to define a […]
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Links are incredibly valuable for studying relationships in complex networks. Depending on the structure of the network, links can be analysed to evaluate important connections such as bridges and weak ties . Link analysis can be used to allude to significant connections between an interesting set of nodes. Link analysis has many applications ranging from […]
Pathfinding is widely used as a method for navigating from one point to another. The practice of finding paths is used in many different situations where obtaining a minimal number of connections is desired at little cost. This is particularly useful for studying networks as it enables us to find valuable connections between nodes. For […]