Computing Assortativity Coefficients on a social network dataset

Computing Assortativity Coefficients on a Social Network Dataset

Assortativity helps analysing pattern of connections in networks. Let’s use it to confirm if people tend to connect to similar people.

In this article we will use some Facebook data to explore the concept of network assortativity (also called as homophily), which we define as the tendency of nodes to connect to their similar.

Networks or Graphs are data representation consisting in nodes (vertices) and edges (links): …

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