link structure

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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 257