Complex network analysis of collections of connected items, words, concepts, or people can now be automated and programmed in Python. Author Dmitry Zinoviev shows how to construct, analyze, and visualize networks with networkx, a Python language module, to  explore their structure and individual elements. Combine your CNA and Python programming skills to become a better network analyst, a more accomplished data scientist, and a more versatile programmer.

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Author: Dmitry Zinoviev
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: January 2018
Pages: 260
ISBN: 978-1680502695
Print: 1680502697
Kindle: B079ZN9K5M
Audience: Python programmers interested in network analysis, or complex data analysis (CNA) or social network analysis (SNA) instructors, researchers and practitioners.
Level: Intermediate
Category: Data Science

• Explore simple networks
• Convert real-life and synthetic network graphs into networkx data structures.
• Learn more powerful machinery to handle centrality calculation, blockmodeling, and clique and community detection.
• Get familiar with presentation-quality network visualization tools such as Gephi
• Adapt the patterns from the case studies to your problems.
• Explore big networks with NetworKit, a high-performance networkx substitute.

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