According to Carl Sagan, the beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. In our cells, atoms compose a multitude of molecules such as proteins and DNA, which coexist in a complex, mutually dependent…

You might know Albert-László Barabási as the author of the best-seller book, Linked: The New Science of Networks. Professor Barabási's seminal work led to the understanding of the common structure of diverse complex systems: natural, technological, and social.…

In this video, I show you how to install and use Gephi to do some basic network analysis of a large Ming dynasty social network derived from the China Biographical Database (https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/). In the follow up video, I will show you how…

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Complex networks are collections of connected items, words, concepts, or people. By exploring their structure and individual elements, we can learn about their…

Vast swathes of our social interactions and personal behaviours are now conducted online and/or captured digitally. Thus, computational methods for collecting, cleaning and analysing data are an increasingly important component of a social scientist’s toolkit.…

Written by Kilver J. Campos, Nicolas Poza Moreno, Alejandro Alvarez, Tomas Vera.