python-igraph API reference

List of all classes, functions and methods in python-igraph

igraph.clustering

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Classes related to graph clustering.

Class Clustering Class representing a clustering of an arbitrary ordered set.
Class CohesiveBlocks The cohesive block structure of a graph.
Class Cover Class representing a cover of an arbitrary ordered set.
Class Dendrogram The hierarchical clustering (dendrogram) of some dataset.
Class VertexClustering The clustering of the vertex set of a graph.
Class VertexCover The cover of the vertex set of a graph.
Class VertexDendrogram The dendrogram resulting from the hierarchical clustering of the vertex set of a graph.
Function compare_communities Compares two community structures using various distance measures.
Function split_join_distance Calculates the split-join distance between two community structures.
Function _handle_mark_groups_arg_for_clustering Handles the mark_groups=... keyword argument in plotting methods of clusterings.
Function _prepare_community_comparison Auxiliary method that takes two community structures either as membership lists or instances of Clustering, and returns a tuple whose two elements are membership lists.
def compare_communities(comm1, comm2, method='vi', remove_none=False):

Compares two community structures using various distance measures.

Parameters
comm1the first community structure as a membership list or as a Clustering object.
comm2the second community structure as a membership list or as a Clustering object.
methodthe measure to use. "vi" or "meila" means the variation of information metric of Meila (2003), "nmi" or "danon" means the normalized mutual information as defined by Danon et al (2005), "split-join" means the split-join distance of van Dongen (2000), "rand" means the Rand index of Rand (1971), "adjusted_rand" means the adjusted Rand index of Hubert and Arabie (1985).
remove_nonewhether to remove None entries from the membership lists. This is handy if your Clustering object was constructed using VertexClustering.FromAttribute using an attribute which was not defined for all the vertices. If remove_none is False, a None entry in either comm1 or comm2 will result in an exception. If remove_none is True, None values are filtered away and only the remaining lists are compared.
Returns
the calculated measure.
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van Dongen D: Performance criteria for graph clustering and Markov cluster experiments. Technical Report INS-R0012, National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, May 2000.
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def split_join_distance(comm1, comm2, remove_none=False):

Calculates the split-join distance between two community structures.

The split-join distance is a distance measure defined on the space of partitions of a given set. It is the sum of the projection distance of one partition from the other and vice versa, where the projection number of A from B is if calculated as follows:

  1. For each set in A, find the set in B with which it has the maximal overlap, and take note of the size of the overlap.
  2. Take the sum of the maximal overlap sizes for each set in A.
  3. Subtract the sum from n, the number of elements in the partition.

Note that the projection distance is asymmetric, that's why it has to be calculated in both directions and then added together. This function returns the projection distance of comm1 from comm2 and the projection distance of comm2 from comm1, and returns them in a pair. The actual split-join distance is the sum of the two distances. The reason why it is presented this way is that one of the elements being zero then implies that one of the partitions is a subpartition of the other (and if it is close to zero, then one of the partitions is close to being a subpartition of the other).

Parameters
comm1the first community structure as a membership list or as a Clustering object.
comm2the second community structure as a membership list or as a Clustering object.
remove_nonewhether to remove None entries from the membership lists. This is handy if your Clustering object was constructed using VertexClustering.FromAttribute using an attribute which was not defined for all the vertices. If remove_none is False, a None entry in either comm1 or comm2 will result in an exception. If remove_none is True, None values are filtered away and only the remaining lists are compared.
Returns
the projection distance of comm1 from comm2 and vice versa in a tuple. The split-join distance is the sum of the two.
See Also
compare_communities() with method = "split-join" if you are not interested in the individual projection distances but only the sum of them.
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def _handle_mark_groups_arg_for_clustering(mark_groups, clustering):

Handles the mark_groups=... keyword argument in plotting methods of clusterings.

This is an internal method, you shouldn't need to mess around with it. Its purpose is to handle the extended semantics of the mark_groups=... keyword argument in the __plot__ method of VertexClustering and VertexCover instances, namely the feature that numeric IDs are resolved to clusters automatically.

def _prepare_community_comparison(comm1, comm2, remove_none=False):

Auxiliary method that takes two community structures either as membership lists or instances of Clustering, and returns a tuple whose two elements are membership lists.

This is used by compare_communities and split_join_distance.

Parameters
comm1the first community structure as a membership list or as a Clustering object.
comm2the second community structure as a membership list or as a Clustering object.
remove_nonewhether to remove None entries from the membership lists. If remove_none is False, a None entry in either comm1 or comm2 will result in an exception. If remove_none is True, None values are filtered away and only the remaining lists are compared.