Network analytics are being increasingly utilized to create machine intelligence that automates the world around us. But what is a network, and how do you analyze them? More directly: how do I find and analyze networks in my dataset? This talk will go over a number of examples of practical network analytics to give viewers a playbook for doing applied social network analysis and network analytics.
14. PROPERTY GRAPHS IN YOUR DOMAIN
identify entities
identify relationships
specify schema (or not)
populate graph database
learn to think in graph walks
query in batch
query in realtime
23. DEGREE CENTRALITY
# computation
count connections
…its that simple
in-degree centrality = popularity
out-degree centrality = gregariousness
# meaning
risk of catching cold
24. CLOSENESS CENTRALITY
# computation
count hops of all shortest paths
distance from all other nodes
reciprocal of farness
# meaning
communication efficiency
spread of information
26. EIGENVECTOR CENTRALITY
# computation
counts connections of connected nodes
more connected neighbors matter more
# meaning
influence of one node on others
pagerank is an eigenvector centrality