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Community detection

- community API
- Indices and tables

# Community detection for NetworkX’s documentation

This module implements community detection.

It uses the louvain method described in Fast unfolding of communities in large networks, Vincent D Blondel, Jean-Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte, Renaud Lefebvre, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2008(10), P10008 (12pp)

It depends on Networkx to handle graph operations : http://networkx.lanl.gov/

The program can be found in a repository where you can also report bugs :

https://github.com/taynaud/python-louvain

# Example :

## As a command line utility :

You should consider using the cpp version at http://findcommunities.googlepages.com/ !

./community.py file.bin > tree

where file.bin is a binary graph as generated by the convert utility of the cpp version.

The generated file can then be used with the hierarchy utility of the cpp version. Note that the program does not make many verifications about the arguments, and is expecting a friendly use.

## As python module :

    import community as community_louvain
    import matplotlib.cm as cm
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import networkx as nx

    # load the karate club graph
    G = nx.karate_club_graph()

    #first compute the best partition
    partition = community_louvain.best_partition(G)

    # compute the best partition
    partition = community_louvain.best_partition(G)

    # draw the graph
    pos = nx.spring_layout(G)
    # color the nodes according to their partition
    cmap = cm.get_cmap('viridis', max(partition.values()) + 1)
    nx.draw_networkx_nodes(G, pos, partition.keys(), node_size=40,
                           cmap=cmap, node_color=list(partition.values()))
    nx.draw_networkx_edges(G, pos, alpha=0.5)
    plt.show()

# Changelog :

- 2020-12-27 : 0.15, Stop relabelling stable partitions, tests on power, doc fixes

- 2020-04-06 : 0.14, bugfixes (on resolution parameter), optimization on random state

- 2018-12-21 : 0.13, better random state, some files missing included, communities always in 0..N-1

- 2018-05-22 : 0.11, stop forcing networkx<2.0 and expose module __version__

- 2018-01-02 : 0.10, bug fix: taking into account the node removal cost

- 2017-09-21 : 0.9, support networkx 2.0

- 2017-06-03 : 0.8, add randomization and bugfixes

- 2017-05-21 : 0.7, migrate to github, readthedocs and travis. Add resolution parameter to control community size, bugfixes

- 04/21/2011 : modifications to use networkx like documentation and use of test.

- 02/22/2011 : correction of a bug regarding edge weights

- 01/14/2010 : modification to use networkx 1.01 graph api and adding the possibility to start the algorithm with a given partition

- 04/10/2009 : increase of the speed of the detection by caching node degrees

# License :

Copyright (c) 2009, Thomas Aynaud <thomas.aynaud@lip6.fr>
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# Indices and tables

- Index

- Module Index

- Search Page