Introducing community detection

Community detection is about identifying the various communities or groups that exist in a network. This is useful in social network analysis, as humans interact with others as part of our various communities, but these approaches are not limited to studying humans.

We can also use these approaches to investigate any kinds of nodes that interact closely with other nodes, whether those nodes are animals, hashtags, websites, or any kind of nodes in a network. Pause for a moment and think about what we are doing. Community detection is a clear, concise, and appropriate name for what we are doing. We are zooming in on communities that exist in a network. What communities would you be interested in exploring and understanding, and why?

There are many good use cases for this. You can use it to understand the sentiment communities share about your product. You can use this to understand a threat landscape. You can use this to understand how ideas move...