One of Python's key advantages that merits repeating is the number of excellent pre-made packages available for the language; fortunately for us, network analysis is no exception. This short recipe will walk you through installing the libraries you'll need for the rest of this chapter.
Preparing to work with social networks in Python
Getting ready
The required external libraries for the tasks in this chapter are as follows:
- NetworkX
- matplotlib
- python-louvain
How to do it...
We will use the following steps that should be familiar at this point to prepare for...