The most popular TV show – a real-world use case

In this section, we will be taking on the very fortunate position or role of a Facebook data scientist to determine, among other things, what the most popular TV show in our dataset is. This will test the knowledge we have gained so far and will take you through a typical use case that gets asked of a graph data scientist.

In order to do this, we will first be taking a look into the general properties of the mutual likes graph. This will start with an examination of what the graph structure looks like, moving on to a few other considerations you may want to take into account, such as a concept known as degree centrality.

Here, you will put your newly acquired skills to work. We will first start by examining the structure of the graph, we will then perform the connectedness of the entities in the graph, and then we will look at the top degree nodes in the graph.

We will be looking at the following steps to achieve our...