Social Network Analysis: From Graph Theory to Applications with Python

Social Network Analysis: From Graph Theory to Applications with Python

Article Outline

Network Theory

Example Network

Real-world networks

Centrality Measures

Building a Network

Eurovision network loading from excel filenx.draw_networkx(G) outcome on Eurovision 2018 votes network

Visualization

Information Flow

Linear Threshold activation function. Source: The Independent Cascade and Linear Threshold Models. P. Shakarian, A Bhatnagar, A Aleali, E Shaabani, R Guo — Diffusion in Social Networks, 2015

Information Flow Example

Schematic process of Game of Thrones network creation.

Independent Cascade process simulation code

Independent Cascade diffusion on Game of Thrones network

Influence Maximization

Centrality Measures in Game of Thrones network

Network influence coverage by different methods and budgets

Wrap-up

Useful Resources

Code and Data:

Papers:

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