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Michele Coscia
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Michele Coscia's personal blog at michelecoscia.com covers data, science and economics. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Michele Coscia's blog for network science posts, such as an analysis of Italian music through complex networks and a post about his book The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-06
What Hacker News says?
If you're interested, in the scientific literature this problem is known as "network backboning". Basically you have all nodes connected to practically all other nodes with weighted edges, and you want to know which are the edges with statistically significant weights. I wrote on this topic [1]. My method [2] basically uses simple counts on edge weights, and then estimates the expected edge weight and its variance u…
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on “A Graph of Related Subreddits”Submitted The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire as a story · 167 points
HN discussionActually yes! It's on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/13309793 It contains both the original artist-band bipartite network, and the actual projections used in the paper (and blog post). The page on my website ( https://www.michelecoscia.com/?page_id=2336 ) is slightly better because it also contains the code to make the projections yourself (and to verify the claims in the paper).
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on “Italian music through the lens of complex networks”Submitted Italian music through the lens of complex networks as a story · 107 points
HN discussionGreat stuff. Network Backboning with Noisy Data paper that this is based on is even more interesting IMO. https://www.michelecoscia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201...
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on “Italian music through the lens of complex networks”Submitted Predictability, Home Advantage, and Fairness in Team Sports as a story · 24 points
HN discussionGood blog post from the author about the book. https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=1913
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on “The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist”Submitted The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist v1.1 as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Limited Power of Telecommunication as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surprising Facts About Shortest Paths as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding Conflicts on Social Media Might Make Things Worse as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Glass Door of Wikipedia's Notable People as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media’s Intolerance Death Spiral as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multilayer Network Backboning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing the Italian and Danish Music Industries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Give Me Some Space, Or: The Slow Descent into Unicode Madness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pearson Correlations for Networks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Effect of Shutting Down International Travels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Worried Look at Economic Convergence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Quickly Is Covid Spreading? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Sample Networks Using Social Media APIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Trips Diary: Bogotá as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Criminal Activities and Migration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Way to Evaluate Money Laundering Detection Algorithms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is What Politicians Do Similar to What They Say? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantifying Affective Polarization on Social Media as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding a Connection Between Kinship and Material Culture Using Network Science as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist v2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantifying Ideological Polarization on Social Media as a story · 1 points
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