NetworkX

Overview

NetworkX is a Python package for creating, manipulating, and analyzing complex networks and graphs. Use this skill when working with network or graph data structures, including social networks, biological networks, transportation systems, citation networks, knowledge graphs, or any system involving relationships between entities.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke this skill when tasks involve:

Creating graphs

Building network structures from data, adding nodes and edges with attributes

Graph analysis

Computing centrality measures, finding shortest paths, detecting communities, measuring clustering

Graph algorithms

Running standard algorithms like Dijkstra's, PageRank, minimum spanning trees, maximum flow

Network generation

Creating synthetic networks (random, scale-free, small-world models) for testing or simulation

Graph I/O

Reading from or writing to various formats (edge lists, GraphML, JSON, CSV, adjacency matrices)

Visualization

Drawing and customizing network visualizations with matplotlib or interactive libraries

Network comparison

Checking isomorphism, computing graph metrics, analyzing structural properties Core Capabilities Show more