Preface

Networks are everywhere and in everything. Once you learn to see them, you will find them everywhere. Natural data is not structured. It is unstructured. Language is one example of unstructured data, and networks are another example. We are, at all times, being influenced by the things that exist around us. I wrote this book in the hope of showing how language data can be transformed into networks that can be analyzed and then showing how the analysis itself can be implemented.

This book does not intend to teach every aspect of network science but to give enough of an introduction so that the tools and techniques may be used confidently to uncover a new branch of insights.