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  • Chapter 10 - Awful errors and how to amend them

  • from Part II - Applications, tools, and tasks
  • James Bagrow, University of Vermont, Yong‐Yeol Ahn, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book:
    Working with Network Data
    Published online:
    06 June 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2024, pp 117-136

  • Summary

    Network data, like all data, are imperfect measures of objects of study. There may be missing information or false information. For networks, these measurement errors can lead to missing nodes or links (network elements that exist in reality but are absent from the network data) or spurious nodes or links (nodes or links present in the data but absent in reality). More troubling is that these conditions exist in a continuum, and there is a spectrum of scenarios where nodes or links may exist but not be meaningful in some way. In this chapter, we describe how such errors can appear and affect network data and introduce some ways to handle such errors in the data processing steps. Fixes for errors can lead to different networks, before and after processing, for example, and we must be careful and circumspect in identifying and planning for such errors.