ABSTRACT
Network science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that studies the properties of large and complex networks. Network scientists are interested in both theoretical properties of networks (e.g., mathematical models for degree distribution) and data-based discoveries in real networks (e.g., the distribution of the number of friends on Facebook). The roots of network science are in the mathematical discipline of graph theory. This chapter uses the tidygraph package for constructing and manipulating graphs, and the ggraph package for plotting graphs as ggplot2 objects. Network science is a very active area of research, with interesting unsolved problems for data scientists to investigate. The chapter explores a fun application of network science to Hollywood movies.
