Rで学ぶネットワーク分析

In this chapter, you will be introduced to fundamental concepts in social network analysis. You will learn how to use the igraph R package to explore and analyze social network data as well as learning how to visualize networks.

In this chapter you will learn about directed networks. You will also learn how to identify key relationships between vertices in a network as well as how to use these relationships to identify important or influential vertices. Throughout this chapter you will use a network of measles transmission. The data come from the German city of Hagelloch in 1861. Each directed edge of the network indicates a child becoming infected with measles after coming into contact with an infected child.

This module will show how to characterize global network structures and sub-structures. It will also introduce generating random network graphs.

This chapter will further explore the partitioning of networks into sub-networks and determining which vertices are more highly related to one another than others. You will also develop visualization methods by creating three-dimensional visualizations.