Network Analysis

Introduction: Analysis of the citation network of Computer Scientists by applying the Graph methods in python.

Data: In this project we have used the DBLP dataset which contains information about Computer Scientists articles, and we worked on two json file: full_dblp json file, which needs to be parsed and contains the entire network, and reduced_dblp json file for testing and debugging, which needs to be parsed and contains a portion of the network, also Python 3.x was used in this project.

In proper root directory run:

python main.py <data> <exercise_number> <exercise_letter>

• data: It can be reduce if you want to use the reduced_dblp dataset or full if you want to use full_dblp.
• exercise_number: It can be 1 (just to make graph), 2 (just to run second part of the task) or 3 (just to run Third part of the task)
• exercise_letter: It can be a or b (only if the second Argument is 2 and 3, for each part of them)

specific libraries which have to be installed:

import pandas as pd
import networkx as nx
import numpy

Modules:

• main.py :

This module is the main corpus of the project, and initialises and calls other functions, listed later in this README file.

• Graph.py:

By processing JSON file, it creates a graph, G, whose nodes are the authors and The edges identify whether two authors share at least one common publication. Each edge is weighted in the following way:

where a1, a2 are authors, p1 and p2 are the set of publication of the two authors and, J(p1 , p2) represents the jaccard similarity between these two sets of publications.

Functions definition:

def create_graph(inf_data): #this function creates a graph's nodes without edges, (this function must be called with a #loaded json dataset file as a argument)
def add_edges(inf_data,graph): #this function is used to create weighted graph's edges, (this must be called with a loaded json 
#dataset and the results nodes of previous function.

• Arisnumber.py:

This module contains a class named class Shortest_Path(): which is used to find the weight of the shortest path that connects the input author with Aris and the group number of each node of graph, using a given set of author.

Functions definition:

def __init__(self, graph): # for Initialization
def create_dict_connection(self): # Function to make a dictionary that nodes appears as keys and tuples of connected nodes 
#as values in this form: ("connected node", "weight")
def path_list(path,lst_path): # This function makes a list containing the path between pair of connected nodes.
def dijkstrapath(self,start): # This function calculates the shortest distance between an author and the other nodes, by using Dijkstra.
def GroupNumber(self,set_id_author): # Dictionary with all shortest paths for the nodes of the input set.

• GenericFunctions.py:

This file contains just three generic functions which are called in other modules.

Functions definition:

def clean_name(name): # This function cleans the names 
def jaccard_similarity(lst1,lst2): # This function is to calculate jaccard_similarity between two lists
def Id_name(graph,node_auth): # This function is to convert the authors' ids into their corresponding names

• Hopdistance.py:

This module contains a class named Hop_Dist, which, given an input node and an integer d, finds all nodes that have hop distance at most equal to d. It contains several functions:

def connect(self,lst_node,step): # Recursive function to calculate the hop distance, when the number of step is more than 1
def hop_distance(self,step, node): # Function to calculate the hop distance of a specific input author for the 3 main situations

• plot.py:

This module contains several functions to plot results of the project.

Functions definition:

def create_graph_by_conf(G_def, conf): # This function plots the subgraph of the nodes (authors) participating in the same
#conference. The colors of the node represent the hop distance from the main node, the size of the node is directly 
#proportional to the number of the edges of each node.
def statistics_by_conf(G_sub, conf): # This function creates a histogram that rapresnt illustrating the three types of 
#centrality analysed, i.e. betweenness centrality, degree centrality and closeness centality. The subgraph shows every 
#author who participated to the input conference.
def create_graph_by_auth(node,G_def): # This funcion creates a plot showing the main node (i.e. the input author), and 
#the adjacent nodes (with hop distance equal to the input d previously mentioned). the colours of the nodes illustrate the different level of distance from the main one, whilst their size rapresents the number of edges.
def create_plot_shorter_path(G,tup_node): # This function creates a plot of the shortest path between any two nodes. 
#Each node's label is the name of the author, whilst the cost of the shortest path is shown in the title.