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In this chapter, we introduce the concept of a network (also known as a graph). Working with a citation network build from United States Supreme Court opinions, the topics of graph drawing, centrality measures, and community detection are all explored.
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Arnold, T., Tilton, L. (2015). Networks. In: Humanities Data in R. Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20702-5_6
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