/Social-network-Analysis

Predicting friendship trends among a group

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Social-network-Analysis

Predicting friendship trends among a group of close friends i.e who’s most likely to be next friend. Inspired from social network analysis excercises by Lukas Frei and Eric Ma.

Modules

networkx
pandas
matplotlib
numpy

Reference

  • Holder, Mark D. & Coleman, Ben, The Contribution of Social Relationships to Children’s Happiness (2009), Journal of Happiness Studies
  • Otte, Evelien & Rousseau, Ronald, Social network analysis: a powerful strategy, also for the information sciences (2002), Journal of Information Science
  • https://towardsdatascience.com/predicting-friendship-a82bc7bbdf11
  • Soundarajan, Sucheta & Hopcroft, John, Using community information to improve the precision of link prediction methods (2012), Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web
  • Romero, Daniel, Applied Social Network Analysis in Python, Coursera