Exploring an Actor Network
Objectives:
In this homework, we will explore the basic characteristics of an actor network.
Dataset description:
Figure 1: Visualization of the actor network.
For the 2005 Graph Drawing conference a data set was provided of the IMDB movie
database. We will use a reduced version of this dataset, which derived all actor-actor
collaboration edges where the actors co-starred in at least 2 movies together between
1995 and 2004.
In our Weixin group you may find two files containing the following datasets:
1. imdb_actor_edges.tsv
This file contains the information of edges in the actor network, including the nodes of
each edge, as well as the edge weight (number of co-starred movies).
2. imdb_actors_key.tsv
This file contains basic information for 17000+ actors including their names,
