Networks in Social Sciences and Economics

Course available in Moodle

Lecture Notes and Material

(1) Graph theory

Graphs

Paths and Circuits

Trees and Planar Graphs

Graph Colouring

(2) Multi-layer Networks

Multi-layer 1

Multi-layer 2

Multi-layer 3

Additional Material

(3) Random Graph

Erdos-Renyi

Watts-Strogatz

Barabási-Albert

4) Graph statistical extraction and analysis

Switching Graphs

Variational Bayes

A Stochastic Block Model

Laboratory sessions

Please be sure to have Gephi installed if you would like to replicate the Gephi Lab session (Download Gephi)

Please be sure to have MATLAB installed if you would like to replicate the MATLAB Lab session (Download MATLAB, use the Campus License available in your UNIVE personal area, or register for free at Mathworks and use MATLAB online).

(1) Laboratory with Gephi

Download Gephi

Reference for an Introduction to Gephi: web.

1.2 Here a tutorial

1.3 Reference to Force Atlas 2 in Gephi

1.4 Network files used in these labs: zip

1.5 Gephi sample datasets

(2) Laboratory with Matlab

2.1 Download MATLAB

2.2 Use MATLAB online.

2.3 MATLAB codes for random graph models

2.4 References on random graph models