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Edward L. Platt
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Edward L. Platt

Edward L. Platt creates technology for communities and communities for technology. He is currently a researcher at the University of Michigan School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. He has published research on large-scale collective action, social networks, and online communities. He was formerly a staff researcher at the MIT Center for Civic Media. He contributes to many free/open source software projects, including tools for media analysis, network science, and cooperative organizations. He has also done research on quantum computing and fault tolerance. He has an M.Math in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, as well as B.S degrees in both Computer Science and Physics from MIT.
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Creating a network with code

So far, you've got some handy network formats in your toolbox. But, if your data is too complex or too messy to easily convert into one of the previous formats, you might have to build your network from scratch, adding edges and nodes one at a time. Luckily, the techniques you learned in Chapter 2, Working with Networks in NetworkX, are all you really need! This section walks through a practical example of building a network programmatically from a real data set.

The example in this section is a word co-occurrence network. These networks are used to understand the relationship between words in a particular set of documents. In a co-occurrence network, nodes represent words and edge weights represent how many documents they appear in together. Here, "document could mean any collection of words: blog post, paragraph, sentence, carefully arranged...

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Edward L. Platt

Edward L. Platt creates technology for communities and communities for technology. He is currently a researcher at the University of Michigan School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. He has published research on large-scale collective action, social networks, and online communities. He was formerly a staff researcher at the MIT Center for Civic Media. He contributes to many free/open source software projects, including tools for media analysis, network science, and cooperative organizations. He has also done research on quantum computing and fault tolerance. He has an M.Math in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, as well as B.S degrees in both Computer Science and Physics from MIT.
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