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  • Chapter 14 - Summarizing and comparing networks

  • from Part II - Applications, tools, and tasks
  • James Bagrow, University of Vermont, Yong‐Yeol Ahn, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book:
    Working with Network Data
    Published online:
    06 June 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2024, pp 223-234

  • Summary

    Realistic networks are rich in information. Often too rich for all that information to be easily conveyed. Summarizing the network then becomes useful, often necessary, for communication and understanding but, being wary, of course, that a summary necessarily loses information about the network. Further, networks often do not exist in isolation. Multiple networks may arise from a given dataset or multiple datasets may each give rise to different views of the same network. In such cases and more, researchers need tools and techniques to compare and contrast those networks. In this chapter, In this chapter, well show you how to summarize a network, using statistics, visualizations, and even other networks. From these summaries we then describe ways to compare networks, defining a distance between networks for example. Comparing multiple networks using the techniques we describe can help researchers choose the best data processing options and unearth intriguing similarities and differences between networks in diverse fields.