Exploring subgraphs within a heroic network
The graph in the previous recipe, Importing networks, is much too large for us to get a feel for what is happening at the individual level, although we'll soon look at analyses that tell us interesting things about populations and communities. However, in order for us to see something interesting immediately, let's extract a subgraph to play with. In particular, we'll collect a subgraph for a particular hero in our dataset. When a subgraph is generated with a single person or actor as a focal point, it is called an ego network, and, in fact, the degree of an ego network might be a measure of an individual's self-worth!
Getting ready
As long as you completed the previous recipe, you will be prepared for this one.
How to do it...
The following steps will lead you through extracting subgraphs from our large dataset and visualizing the ego networks:
- Every social network has as many egos as nodes. The neighbors of an ego are called alters. The definition...
