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Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology

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The Different Approaches to Community Detection

There's a lot more statistical inference methods now that are existed before 2009 but we're not there were certain issues of them that weren't getting good results just yet. So my sort of perspective on community structure now is that this should be the networks that you get from a bottleneck. And then as I mentioned, there are these sort of dynamical process-based approaches to pursue. The issue is that the ones that people know how to deal with are dynamical processes that are based on very simplistic ones and so they can go wrong in some ways. But even though we can do everything as a network, usually we're thinking about something different than what it actually is.

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