Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Instituto Metrópole Digital

IMD1155 - Network Analysis

References

• 📚 Menczer, Filippo; Fortunato, Santo; A. Davis, Clayton. A First Course in Network Science [Link]
• 📚 Dmitry Zinoviev. Complex Network Analysis in Python [Link]
• 📚 Coscia, Michele. The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist [Link]
• 📚 Mark Newman. Networks. [Link]
• 🔥 Literature of Deep Learning for Graphs [Link]
• 📣 A scientific network data repository [Link]
• 🔖 Stanford large network dataset collection (SNAP) [Link]

Lessons

• Week 01

  • Course Outline & Syllabus
  • Data Science vs Graph Data Science
  • Historical Context of Network Analysis
  • Google Colab Introduction
  • Google Colab Cont.
  • Further studies

• Week 02 Network Elements

  • Outline
  • Basic Definitions
  • Extended Graphs
  • Density, Sparsity and Subnetworks
  • Degree and Network Representation
  • Further Reading
  • NetworkX
  • Graph-Tool

• Week 03 Exercise

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• Week 04 Small Worlds

  • Outline
  • Assortativity
  • Paths, Walks and Distances
  • Connected Components
  • Clustering Coefficient

• Week 05 Exercise

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• Week 06 Hubs

  • Outline
  • Eccentricity, Diameter, Periphery, Radius and Center
  • Degree, Closeness, Betweenness and Eigenvector Centrality
  • Centrality Distributions Part 01
  • Centrality Distributions Part 02
  • Core Decomposition Part 01
  • Core Decomposition Part 02
  • Hands on hubs

• Week 07 Directed networks: case study of Wikipedia pages

  • Building a networking from Wikipedia pages
  • Collecting data from a snowballing process
  • Truncate and eliminate duplicates
  • Exploring the network
  • Gephi
    • Install
    • Quick start
    • Using layouts
    • Node and network measures
    • Visualize and filter
    • Renderize and export
    • Highlighting a community
    • Deploy the network [Page link]
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• Week 08 Directed networks: case study of Twitter

  • Get started with Twitter APIs and tools
  • Authenticating with Twitter's API
  • Twitter API basics
  • Using Twitter's search API to get tweets of interest
  • Twitter retweet network
  • Twitter mention network
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