link structure

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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The link structure of network or graph can be used to move from item to item or be used for structured analysis. Typical examples include web pages or {[social media}}. Some analysis may be local focused on an individual and is neighbours (for example counting the number of friends in a social network. Other alayses are global, looking at the whole network (for example PageRank).

Used in Chap. 17: page 277