Community Detection

offered by Data Society

This course is designed for students who have taken Data Society’s Introduction to Network Analysis course and Mining Social Media course or who have good experience in network analysis. This 3 hour course teaches students how to clean and format network data, detect and measure networks and sub-networks, and import email data and visualize it.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Quantitatively measure the strength of connections between people and groups
2. Detect communities to understand how nodes and individuals group together
3. Identify the most important nodes in a network through a variety of metrics

3 month access: $59
1 year access: $149
Forever access: $349