Determining the betweenness centrality
Betweenness centrality is a type of centrality similar to closeness centrality (refer to the Calculating social network closeness centrality recipe). This metric is given by the following equation:
It is the total of the fraction of all possible pairs of shortest paths that go through a node.
Getting ready
Install NetworkX with instructions from the Introduction section.
How to do it...
The script is in the between_centrality.ipynb
file in this book's code bundle:
- The imports are as follows:
import networkx as nx import dautil as dl import pandas as pd
- Load the Facebook SPAN data into a NetworkX graph:
fb_file = dl.data.SPANFB().load() ...
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