Complex Network Analysis in Python

Master “toposort”

This section uses Pandas, community, toposort.

Directed network analysis has an unexpected connection to creative writing and computer game development.

Game developers and creative writers are often in need of a collection of adjectives that characterize a particular property and range from “very bad” to “very good.” Directed network analysis (via the module toposort) makes it possible to design such a scale in any natural language.

Obtain and Extract Survey Data

You can start this mini case study by defining a list of candidate adjectives; in our case, the list consists of thirty-four words: “alpha plus,” “average,” “bad,” “crappy,” “disgusting,” “excellent,” “exciting,” “f*cking good,” “fantastic,” “filthy,” “first-class,” ...