Data Analytics and Computational Social Science: Assignment_3

Walid Medani

Network Graph

Description

There are 156 nodes within the militarized interstate dispute dataset. Edges are undirected and are defined as instances of when one state threatened, displayed, or used force directed towards the government, official representatives, official forces, property, or territory of another state.

Network Density & Centralization

[1] 0.1136476

$res
  [1] 74 56 64 60 47 63 53 51 58 55 43 59 46 62 17 22 20 63 23 36  2
 [22] 37  4 39 15  5  2  3  5  8  2 17  4  4  3  1  3  3  2  1  1  7
 [43] 41  7 13  8  5  8  8 33  5 12  3 36 23 39  2 19  6 18  6 18  7
 [64]  8  5  1  2 12  8  2  8 21  2  1  8 10  4  4  1  3  5 45 45 34
 [85] 47 54  2  7  1  1  3  2  7 45 46 45 45  1  1  1  2  1  1  1 36
[106]  1  1  2 26  9  1  1  1  1  4  5  5 19 19 53 53 42  2  2  3  1
[127]  7 37 37 44 38 37 44 44 37 44  3  1  3  1  1  1  1  1  3  1  1
[148]  1  1  2  1  2  2 33 33  1

$centralization
[1] 0.3637717

$theoretical_max
[1] 24180

Degrees

    name degree
USA  USA     74
UKG  UKG     64
FRN  FRN     63
RUS  RUS     63
TUR  TUR     62
NTH  NTH     60

     name               degree     
 Length:156         Min.   : 1.00  
 Class :character   1st Qu.: 2.00  
 Mode  :character   Median : 7.00  
                    Mean   :17.62  
                    3rd Qu.:36.25  
                    Max.   :74.00

Results

USA, UK, France, Russia, and Turkey are some of the most central nodes within the dataset. Whereas Tunisia, Kosovo, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, and Nepal are the lowest central nodes. The network density is low (.11) with not many actual connections despite the portion of potential connections. With a centralization score of .36, ties of the network aren’t too concentrated on a group of actors.

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Medani (2022, Feb. 17). Data Analytics and Computational Social Science: Assignment_3. Retrieved from https://github.com/DACSS/dacss_course_website/posts/httpswalidmedanigithubionetworks-blogposts2022-02-07-assignment3/

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@misc{medani2022assignment_3,
  author = {Medani, Walid},
  title = {Data Analytics and Computational Social Science: Assignment_3},
  url = {https://github.com/DACSS/dacss_course_website/posts/httpswalidmedanigithubionetworks-blogposts2022-02-07-assignment3/},
  year = {2022}
}