Technical requirements

In this chapter, we will utilize the networkx library, a Python library that’s used for working with networks or graphs. It offers a range of tools and functions for creating, manipulating, and analyzing networks. This library facilitates node creation, adding information, and providing algorithms for analyzing and exploring networks, such as finding the shortest paths, calculating centrality measures, and detecting communities.

If you have not worked with networkx before, it can be installed using the following code snippet:

pip install networkx

The documentation for networkx can be found at https://networkx.org/documentation/stable/index.html.

We will also use Gephi, a free open source tool for graph plotting. Gephi is a user-friendly tool that’s designed for visualizing and exploring graphs and networks. It assists users in gaining insights and analyzing complex relationships within graph data.

With Gephi, we can import data from...