Assignment

We will compute the average path length of a network of scientists. The network is constructed from [1], where each node represents a scientist and two scientists are connected if they have co-authored a paper in Physical Review Journals from American Physical Society.

• For students enrolled in SSIE 641

  • You will receive a dedicated link to the assignment repository from the instructor.

• For those who are not enrolled in SSIE 641

  • You can access the assignment repository at Github.

  • This repository does not offer auto-grading. But you can grade the assignment by yourself by

    • bash grading-toolkit/grade_notebook.sh tests/test_01.py assignment/assignment.ipynb

    • bash grading-toolkit/grade_notebook.sh tests/test_02.py assignment/assignment.ipynb

[1]

Roberta Sinatra, Dashun Wang, Pierre Deville, Chaoming Song, and Albert-László Barabási. Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact. Science, 354(6312):aaf5239, 2016.