NetworkX Introduction - Lab

Introduction

In this lab, you'll practice some of the introductory skills for creating graphs using the NetworkX library introduced in the previous lesson. To do this, you'll create a graph to visualize users and businesses from yelp reviews.

Objectives

In this lab you will:

Create basic network graphs with networkx
Add nodes and edges to networkx graphs
Visualize network graphs with networkx

Import the Data

To start, import the data stored in the file 'Yelp_reviews.csv'.

# Your code here

Creating a Graph

Now, create an initial graph!

# Your code here

Adding Nodes

Create a node for each user and each business in the dataset. Networks with multiple node types like this are called bimodal networks.

Optionally, go further by creating a list of colors for when you visualize the graph. If you do this, append the color "green" to your color list every time you add a user node and append the color "blue" to your color list every time you add a business node.

# Your code here

Adding Edges

Next, iterate through the dataset and create an edge between users and the businesses they have reviewed.

# Your code here

Visualizing the Graph

Finally, create a visualization of your network. If you chose to color your nodes, pass the list of colors through the optional node_color parameter.

# Your code here

Summary

Nice work! In this lab you created an initial network to visualize a bimodal network of businesses and yelp reviewers!

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