• Orlando Gili/Millenium Images Orlando Gili/Millenium Images Your friends are likely to have more friends than you do. • Don’t worry, it’s nothing personal. • It’s just about how networks organise. • We can represent a friendship group as a network. • Draw a node (dot) for each person and a line between two nodes if those two people are friends. • By doing this for a group of people who interact in person or online, we can build a representation of friendship connections.

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  • Your friends are likely to have more friends than you do. Don’t worry, it’s nothing personal. It’s just about how networks organise. We can represent a friendship group as a network. Draw a node (dot) for each person and a line between two nodes if those two people are friends. By doing this for a group of people who interact in person or online, we can build a representation of friendship connections. This network allows us to explore questions such as the number of degrees of separation. If someone is a friend of your friend, they are connected to you at degree 2. Their friends are at degree

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