This writing assignment is based on the comparison of two networks: a dolphin network and a human social network. Your tasks are the following:
Compare and contrast the two networks based on their network an node metrics
- Read the dolphin network and the karate network from the data sources provided.
- Dolphin network
- Karate network
- Instructions
- Your writeup should contain a brief description (100 or fewer words) of the descriptions of both dataset (s to provide the context and setting) so that a reader understands what the backstory is for these data
- This should be followed by plots of both networks
- Compare and contrast the two networks based on
- degree distributions
- different types of centralities
- centrality correlations, and
- triad census
- When you compare the two networks, please make sure that you use a table to compare the metrics of the two networks
- The central question that you will be responding to is: do the similarities between the two networks outweigh the dissimilarities?
