Editing Communication and Social Networks (Spring 2024)/Final project (section)

=== Finding Networks ===

There are a number of repositories of network datasets. Probably the simplest to use are those found in the [https://github.com/schochastics/networkdata networkdata] package, which we have already been using. If you look at the [https://github.com/schochastics/networkdata homepage of the package], you can see descriptions of the datasets that are included.

Another repository I really like is the [https://icon.colorado.edu/#!/networks Index of Complex Networks]. You can filter by type of network, size, etc. One thing to note about these networks is that you will need to load them into R (unlike <code>networkdata</code>). They are in different formats, and you will likely need to do some work to get them to be <code>igraph/tablegraph</code> networks.

Fortunately, there are a number of tools in <code>igraph</code> designed to help you to import different file types. [https://igraph.org/c/doc/igraph-Foreign.html This page] gives a great overview.