Explore Directed Networks

The directedness of edges dramatically affects almost all network measures and structural elements. Let’s have a look at some affected properties. As an example, let’s use a directed network of the top three preferred migration destinations for each state in 2015, constructed from the United States Census Bureau State-to-State Migration Flows dataset.[56] You can find the Python code for the network construction in the file migrations.py. The picture shows the network sketch (the meaning of the colors will be explained laterhere).

images/migration.png

Degree

Each node in a directed graph G has three degrees: G.in_degree (the number of incoming ...

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