Awesome Network Analysis

An awesome list of resources to construct, analyze and visualize network data.

Inspired by Awesome Deep Learning, Awesome Math and others. Started in 2016, and irregularly updated since then.

Network of U.S. political blogs by Adamic and Glance (2004) (preprint).

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Contents

• Books
• Classics
• Dissemination
• General Overviews
• Graph Theory
• Method-specific
• Software-specific
• Topic-specific
• Conferences
• Courses
• Datasets
• Journals
• Professional groups
• Research Groups (USA)
• Research Groups (Other)
• Review Articles
• Archeological and Historical Networks
• Bibliographic, Citation and Semantic Networks
• Biological, Ecological and Disease Networks
• Complex Networks
• Ethics of Network Analysis
• Network Modeling
• Network Visualization
• Social, Economic and Political Networks
• Selected Papers
• Software
• Algorithms
• C / C++
• Java
• JavaScript
• Julia
• MATLAB
• Python
• R
• Stata
• Syntaxes
• Tutorials
• Varia
• Blog Series
• Fictional Networks
• Network Science
• Small Worlds
• Two-Mode Networks
• Contributing Guidelines
• License

Books

Classics

• A Novitiate in a Period of Change: An Experimental and Case Study of Social Relationships, by Samuel F. Sampson (unpublished PhD dissertation, 1968).
• Social Network Analysis, by John Scott (2017).
• Social Network Analysis. Methods and Applications, by Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust (1994).
• The Structure and Dynamics of Networks, edited by Mark E.J. Newman, Albert-László Barabási and Duncan J. Watts - 600 pages of classic network analysis articles (2006).

Dissemination

Accessible introductions aimed at non-technical audiences.

• Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler (2009).
• Linked: The New Science of Networks, by Albert-László Barabási (2002).
• Network Literacy: Essential Concepts and Core ideas, by the NetSciEd team (c. 2016) - Available in several languages (paper).
• Nexus. Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks, by Mark Buchanan (2003).
• Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, by Duncan J. Watts (2003).

General Overviews

• L'analyse de réseau en sciences sociales. Petit guide pratique, by Laurent Beauguitte, in French (2023). Readable online.
• The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist, by Michele Coscia (2021).
• Encyclopedia of Social Networks, edited by George A. Barnett - Covers all sorts of network-related themes (many of them not formal) as well as social network analysis (2011).