The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist

https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00863

by Anon84 • 6 years ago

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lrossi• 6 years ago

760 pages!

I skimmed through the graph visualization section. It’s quite interesting.

unixhero• 6 years ago

Amazing submission

washedup2• 6 years ago

Is there a version in print?

tokai4• 6 years ago

From the authors blog:

"A print-on-demand version will be available soon (link will follow)"

washedup2• 6 years ago

Missed that, Thanks!

effie• 6 years ago

That page count and breadth of topics are repelling. Is there something original or exceptionally interesting in there?

VHRanger• 6 years ago

It's an atlas, so no. It's supposed to be a broad cover you can skim and dig into some of the sections.

It's also not that huge given the scope -- it could be taught as a multi semester course like a lot of the similar statistics textbooks

nimih• 6 years ago

Is there something original or exceptionally interesting in there?

Presumably the exercises and organization, if nothing else, both of which end up being a large part of the value of any good textbook anyways.

user_235711• 6 years ago

Wow. This is a full-blown book, not merely a post or a paper. A thorough mathematical survey of network science (probability, graph theory, path analysis, etc.). Downloaded my copy. Although I wouldn't mind paying some money for the printed tome.

SakeOfBrevity2• 6 years ago

Print it yourself

lbhdc• 6 years ago

That doesn't support the author though.

akarma• 6 years ago

This is amazing.

I was lucky enough to study a bit of network science in college under a fantastic professor, and always regretted not taking it further and getting involved with his research.

It impacted my thinking in so many areas (finance, technology, etc.) and the only limiting factor was forgetting over time what I had learned. There's been hardly any good introductory resources for network science given what a young field it is. Great to see that changing!

tokai4• 6 years ago

Good blog post from the author about the book.

https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=1913

allemagne2• 6 years ago

What's the proper way to term the relationship between "Network Science" and "Graph Theory"?

Is it incorrect or too simplistic to say that network science is a subset of graph theory?

tokai4• 6 years ago

Network Science is an interdisciplinary field for the study of complex networks. Graph Theory is the mathematical study of graphs.

allemagne2• 6 years ago

Would it be incorrect to say network science is the interdisciplinary study of an aspect from graph theory? Is there a complex network that isn't or can't be represented as a graph?

zekrioca• 6 years ago

Very cool quote from the book:

"One of the facts that never fails to blow my mind is the realization that a piece of software is, after all, just a very cleverly composed number. Thus you can sum Adobe Photoshop to Google Chrome, although the result won’t probably make much sense. That is also why there exist such a thing as an “illegal number” [1]."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

nxpnsv• 6 years ago

Here is the authors book page: https://www.networkatlas.eu/

The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist

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