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Network Science with Python

You're reading from   Network Science with Python Explore the networks around us using network science, social network analysis, and machine learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073691
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Natural Language Processing and Networks
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Natural Language Processing FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Network Analysis 4. Chapter 3: Useful Python Libraries 5. Part 2: Graph Construction and Cleanup
6. Chapter 4: NLP and Network Synergy 7. Chapter 5: Even Easier Scraping! 8. Chapter 6: Graph Construction and Cleaning 9. Part 3: Network Science and Social Network Analysis
10. Chapter 7: Whole Network Analysis 11. Chapter 8: Egocentric Network Analysis 12. Chapter 9: Community Detection 13. Chapter 10: Supervised Machine Learning on Network Data 14. Chapter 11: Unsupervised Machine Learning on Network Data 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding nodes

We need to add nodes that are missing. As Alice in Wonderland is a fantasy story, and NER models tend to be trained with more modern and realistic text, the NER struggled to identify some important entities, including the Queen of Hearts. There are a few lessons here:

  • First, don’t blindly trust models, ever. The data that they were trained on will have an impact on what they do and don’t do very well.
  • Second, domain knowledge is very important. If I did not know the story of Alice in Wonderland, I might not even have noticed that the royalty was missing.
  • Finally, even with flaws, NER and these approaches will do most of the work in converting text into networks, but your domain knowledge and critical thinking will lead to the best results.

Just as with removing nodes, networkx has two methods for adding nodes: one at a time, or several at once:

  • We can add just 'Queen of Hearts':
    G.add_node('Queen of Hearts&apos...
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