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Research Associate @IEG_Mainz | PhD Physics @AucklandUni, BEng @ufscaroficial | Complex systems and networks | @Corinthians, travelling, rock and roll 🤘🏻🍻
Dec 9, 2019 25 tweets 7 min read
New preprint out!

Transitivity and degree assortativity explained: The bipartite structure of social networks
arxiv.org/abs/1912.03211

A thread on #affiliationnetworks (#bipartitenetworks #twomodenetworks) and their importance to social systems. Social networks tend to present higher levels of transitivity (friend of my friend is my friend too) and degree assortativity (popular people are likely to connect to other popular people and unpopular to unpopular) than others.

Why?