Network Science by Albert-László Barabási
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Network Science by Albert-László Barabási
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#2Great book
Re: Network Science by Albert-László Barabási
#3Used this book in the network science course at Georgia Tech, it was really good (the class and the book).
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#4the link is dead for me
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#5If you're interested in graphs, network science, or social science, Barabási's Linked is a rewarding read. (https://www.amazon.com/Linked-Everything-Connected-Business-...)
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#6I remember Networks and Graphs were all the rage in the early/mid 2010s as everybody was trying to mimic the massive social media successes. This was a very famous book and the author well known during that period. Turns out not everything is a graph or social and lot of that enthusiasm went away.
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#7I remember Networks and Graphs were all the rage in the early/mid 2010s as everybody was trying to mimic the massive social media successes. This was a very famous book and the author well known during that period. Turns out not everything is a graph or social and lot of that enthusiasm went away.
I would counter that many complex phenomena are best represented by graphs. There's a sort of elbow in the learning curve where you have a lot of tools but as your datasets grow in size the graphs become unmanageable and the signal:noise ratio goes way down. At this point you need to prune or chunk somehow, but it rapidly becomes more of an art than a science and reproducibility is elusive. Advanced techniques disseminate slowly and are not that intuitive, but there's still steady progress, eg deep learning models for sparsification while preserving structure.
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#8I’ve read part of his other book - “The Equation”. Good book and touches on the importance of “networks” in fields like art where you can’t measure quality. Should pick this one up.
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#9There is criticism around ALB. See [1] and specific notes from other network scientists such as Bernardo Huberman (Andrew Huberman [2] father).
[1] https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-non...
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#10Professional physicist here. I've attended a lecture series by Barabasi in Austria in 2017, I was blown away. After day 1 I ordered the book on Amazon and had it signed before the end of the event.