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Node Centrality

Degree, Closeness, and Betweenness Centrality

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Bruno Gonçalves
Apr 03, 2021
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To understand the structure of a network, it is often useful to identify which nodes play the most important roles or are best placed within the network, and to quantify how central they are. Centrality measures and other graph metrics are often used as features used to train Machine Learning models.

In this post we explore some of the fundamental cent…

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