CS224W——Snap.py and Google Cloud Tutorial

Snap.py Tutorial

** Introduction to SNAP**

What is SNAP?

Stanford Network Analysis Platform (SNAP)
is a general purpose, high-performance system for analysis and manipulation of large networks

• http://snap.stanford.edu
• Scales to massive networks with hundreds of millions of nodes and billions edges

SNAP software

• Snap.py for Python, SNAP C++

Snap.py Resources

• Prebuilt packages availables for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux
  - http://snap.stanford.edu/snappy/index.html
• Snap.py docementation:
  - http://snap.stanford.edu/snappy/doc/index.html
  - Quick introduction, Tutorial, Reference Manual
• SNAP user mailing list
  - http://groups.google.com/group/snap-discuss
• Developer resource
  - Software available as open source under BSD license
  - Github repository
  - http://github.com/snap-stanford/snap-python

SNAP datasets

Over 70 network datasets

• Social networks: online social networks, edges represent interactions between people
• Twitter and Memetracker: Metetracker phrases, links and 467million Tweets
• Citation networks: nodes represent papers, edges represent citations
• Collaboration networks: nodes represent scientists, edges represent collaborations (co-authoring a paper)
• Amazon networks: nodes represen products and edges link commonly co-purchased products

Snap.py for Python

• Installation:
• Follow instructions on the Snap.py webpage

pip install snap-stanford

• Import the snap module

import snap

Network analytics

Google Cloud Platform for Higher Education

Why choose Google Cloud?