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1. Awesome Selfhosted

Software / Personal Dashboards

• LinkStack - Link all your social media platforms easily accessible on one page, customizable through an intuitive, easy to use user/admin interface (alternative to Linktree and Manylink). (Demo, Source Code (⭐1.7k)) AGPL-3.0 PHP/Docker

2. Awesome Neovim

Markdown and LaTeX / Diagnostics

• yaocccc/nvim-hl-mdcodeblock.lua (⭐28) - Highlight markdown codeblock using Tree-sitter.

Tree-sitter Supported Colorscheme / Diagnostics

• nyngwang/nvimgelion (⭐87) - Neon Genesis Evangelion but for Vimmers.

3. Awesome Gnome

System and Customization

• GDM Settings - A settings app for GDM (GNOME's Login Screen a.k.a GNOME Display Manager).

• AdwSteamGtk (⭐140) - Adwaita for Steam (⭐984) skin installer.

4. Awesome Mac

Audio and Video Tools / File Sharing

• YouTube Music - YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader).

5. Awesome Network Analysis

Books / Dissemination

• Linked: The New Science of Networks, by Albert-László Barabási (2002).

Books / General Overviews

• A First Course in Network Science, by Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato, and Clayton A. Davis - Tutorials, datasets and other resouces on GitHub (⭐289) (2020).

• L'analyse de réseau en sciences sociales. Petit guide pratique, by Laurent Beauguitte, in French (2023). Readable online.

• Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg - Full pre-publication draft (review; 2010).

• The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis, edited by John Scott and Peter J. Carrington (2011).

• Social and Economic Networks, by Matthew O. Jackson (2008).

• Social Network Analysis with Applications, by Ian McCulloh, Helen Armstrong and Anthony Johnson (2013).

Books / Method-specific

• Inferential Network Analysis, by Skyler J. Cranmer, Bruce A. Desmarais and Jason Morgan (2020).

• Multimodal Political Networks, by David Knoke, Mario Diani, James Hollway and Dimitri Christopulos (2021).

• Understanding Large Temporal Networks and Spatial Networks, by Vladimir Batagelj et al. (2014).

Courses / Topic-specific

• Complex Networks, by Rémy Cazabet (University Lyon 1 and ENS Lyon, 2022).
  • Network Science CheatSheets (⭐17).

• Graphs and Networks, by Dan Spielman (Yale University, 2013).

• Network Analysis and Modeling (Computer Science), by Aaron Clauset - Full lecture slides and readings (University of Colorado, 2022).

Datasets / Topic-specific

• Hetionet: an integrative network of disease (⭐213) - A complex biological network, available in multiple formats, including JSON and Neo4j.

• Manlio De Domenico’s Complex Multilayer Networks.

• State Networks - US state-to-state relational variables, including borders, travel, trade and more.

• UC Berkeley Social Networks Study (UCNets) - Ego-centric data (personal networks) from a five-year panel study.

Journals / Topic-specific

• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IEEE).

Professional Groups / Topic-specific

• AFS RT 26 “Réseaux sociaux” - Thematic Network of the French Sociological Association (AFS), in French (old website).

• GDR ARSHS - GDR Analyse de réseaux en sciences humaines et sociales, in French - Research group based in Paris.

• Groupe FMR - Flux, Matrices, Réseaux, in French. Twitter: @BaugLaurent.

• Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Twitter: @Math_Sociology.

• Society of Young Network Scientists (SYNS). Supports early-career network scientists. Twitter: @official_SYNS.

Professional Groups / Research Groups (Other)

• NetLab - Research network at the University of Toronto, led by Barry Wellman.

Review Articles / Archeological and Historical Networks

• Analyse de réseaux et histoire, in French (Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2005).

• Analyser les réseaux du passé en archéologie et en histoire, in French (Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2014).

• Introduction à la visualisation de données : l’analyse de réseau en histoire, in French (Geschichte und Informatik, 2015).

• Introduction : où en est l’analyse de réseaux en histoire ? [Introducción: ¿en qué punto se encuentra el análisis de redes en Historia?], in French and Spanish (REDES, 2011).

• Networks and History (Complexity, 2002).

• Networks of Power in Archaeology (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2014).

• Netzwerkanalyse in den Geschichtswissenschaften. Historische Netzwerkanalyse als Methode für die Erforschung von historischen Prozessen, in German (Prozesse. Formen, Dynamiken, Erklärungen, 2015).

• Thinking Through Networks: A Review of Formal Network Methods in Archaeology (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2013).

Review Articles / Bibliographic, Citation and Semantic Networks

• Assessing Impact and Quality from Local Dynamics of Citation Networks (Journal of Informetrics, 2012).

• Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact (Science, 2013).

• On Bibliographic Networks (Scientometrics, 2013).

• Extracting Citation Networks from Publications in Classics (Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2016).

• Self-Citations, Co-Authorships and Keywords: A New Approach to Scientists’ Field Mobility? (Scientometrics, 2007).

• Socio-Semantic Frameworks (preprint; Advances in Complex Systems, 2013).

• Socio-Semantic Modeling of Epistemic Communities (APSA, 2014).

• Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’ Research Strategies (Annual Review of Sociology, 2015).

Review Articles / Biological, Ecological and Disease Networks

• Interactome Networks and Human Disease (Cell, 2011).

• Network Analysis: An Integrative Approach to the Structure of Psychopathology (Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2013).

• Network Biology: Understanding the Cell’s Functional Organization - Accessible introduction to (cellular) network analysis (Nature Reviews Genetics, 2004).

• Network Medicine: A Network-based Approach to Human Disease (Nature Review Genetics, 2011).

• Social Networks and the Spread of Infectious Diseases: the AIDS Example (Social Networks, 1985).

• Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Networks: A Novel Paradigm of Drug Discovery. A Comprehensive Review - Also includes an impressive list of network analysis software (Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2013).

Review Articles / Complex and Multilayer Networks

• The Architecture of Complexity - From network theory to complexity theory (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2007).

• Complex Systems and Networks (special issue of Science, 2009).

• Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks (Reviews of Modern Physics, 2002).

• The Structure and Function of Complex Networks (SIAM Review, 2003).

Review Articles / Ethics of Network Analysis

• A Cautionary Note on Data Inputs and Visual Outputs in Social Network Analysis (SNA) (preprint; British Journal of Management, 2014).

• Ethical Dilemmas in Social Network Research (special issue of Social Networks, 2005).

Review Articles / Network Modeling

• Introduction to Stochastic Actor-Based Models for Network Dynamics (preprint; Social Networks, 2010).

• Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis (American Journal of Political Science, 2017).

• Social Network Evolution and Actor Oriented Models (Mathematics & Social Sciences, 1997).

• Statistical Models for Social Networks (Annual Review of Sociology, 2011).

• A Unified View of Generative Models for Networks: Models, Methods, Opportunities, and Challenges (video presentation; NIPS 2014 workshop on “Networks: From Graphs to Rich Data”).

Review Articles / Social, Economic and Political Networks

• A propos de la notion de rôle dans l’analyse des relations sociales (Mathématiques et sciences humaines, 2011).

• Brokerage (Annual Review of Sociology, 2012).

• Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks (Annual Review of Sociology, 2001).

• Network Analysis and Political Science (Annual Review of Political Science, 2011).

Selected Papers / Social, Economic and Political Networks

• Coauthorship and Citation Patterns in the Physical Review, by Travis Martin et al. - Highly typical study of scientific publishing productivity and collaboration through temporal network analysis (preprint; Physical Review E, 2013).

• La notion de réseau complexe : du réseau comme abstraction et outil à la masse de données des réseaux sociaux en ligne, by Alain Barrat, in French - Accessible introduction to the study of complex networks (Communication & Organisation, 2013).

• Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency, by Mustafa Emirbayer and Jeff Goodwin (American Journal of Sociology, 1994), and Manifesto for a Relational Sociology, by Mustafa Emirbayer (American Journal of Sociology, 1997) - Sociological foundations for a science of social ties.

• Node Centrality in Weighted Networks: Generalizing Degree and Shortest Paths, by Tore Opsahl, Filip Agneessens and John Skvoretz - Explores the generalization of network centrality and distance measures to (positively) valued graphs (Social Networks, 2010; companion website).

• Scale-Free Networks, by Albert-László Barabási and Eric Bonabeau - Early, accessible formulation of the “networks are everywhere” argument (Scientific American, 2003).

• The Performativity of Networks, by Kieran Healy - Network analysis meets science studies: social networks, like financial markets, are highly subject to performativity, i.e. the possibility that reality might be altered by its theoretical inquiry (European Journal of Sociology, 2015).

• Topics in Social Network Analysis and Network Science, by A. James O’Malley and Jukka-Pekka Onnela - 50-page introduction to network analysis, with just the right amount of detail on all aspects of it (The Handbook of Health Services Research, forthcoming 2017).

Software / Social, Economic and Political Networks

• EgoWeb - Server-side software for social network data collection and processing.

• Graphia - Cross-platform tool to visualize large and complex networks (announcement).

• Palladio - Web-based spatial network visualization tool by the Humanities + Design research lab at Stanford University.

• PARTNER - Program to Analyze, Record, and Track Networks to Enhance Relationships - Excel-based tool for building networks from surveys.

• PIGALE - Public Implementation of a Graph Algorithm Library and Editor - Windows program and C++ library to analyze planar graphs.

• qgis-edge-bundling (⭐62) - Implementation of force-directed edge bundling for the QGIS Processing toolbox.

• Radatools - Set of tools intended for the analysis of complex networks, built on top of Radalib, a library written in Ada.

• Retina - Web application to share GEXF and GraphML network visualizations.

• SageMath - Free open-source mathematics software with extensive graph capabilities.

• Segrada - Cross-platform tool to build and visualize semantic graph databases.

• Siena - Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis. Formerly a Windows program, now developed as the RSiena R package.

• SocNetV - Social Network Visualizer - Cross-platform program that includes a simple Web crawler to construct hyperlink networks.

• Visone - Cross-platform Java network analysis and visualization program, free for noncommercial use.
  • Visone Tutorials - Including one using an archaeological case study (2017).

• VOSviewer - Cross-platform Java tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks.

Software / Algorithms

• CONGA and CONGO - Algorithms to detect overlapping communities in networks, written in Java.

• MixNet - Erdös-Rényi Mixture Model for Networks - Community detection method, available in C++ and R.

• vbmod: Variational Bayesian Inference for Network Modularity - MATLAB and Python implementations of a Bayesian community detection algorithm.

Software / C / C++

• BGL - Boost Graph Library - C++ library that provides a generic interface to access graph structures.

• igraph - C library of network analysis tools; also exists as packages for Python and R.

• MapEquation - C++ code for the Infomap method of multilevel community detection.

• networks.tb - C program designed for analyzing socio-semantic networks. Runs on Linux and Mac OS X.

• OGDF - Open Graph Drawing Framework - Self-contained C++ class library for diagram, network and tree layouts.

Software / Java

• GraphStream - Java library for the modeling and analysis of dynamic graphs.

Software / JavaScript

• Cytoscape.js - Network analysis and visualization library.

• GoJS - Visualization library to draw diagrams and several types of network layouts.

• Popoto.js (⭐467) - Library based on d3.js that provides a graph based search interface.

• Sigma - JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing.

• vis.js - JavaScript library with network visualization capabilities.

Software / MATLAB

• MatlabBGL - Graph library based on the C++ Boost Graph Library.

Software / Python

• bokeh - Python library for interactive data visualization in the browser, with support for networks.

• cdlib (⭐327) - Python community detection library, with 60+ methods and evaluation/visualization features.

• networkx - Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks.
  • Implementing an ERGM from Scratch in Python, using networkx and numpy (2014).
  • nxviz (⭐436) - Visualization package for NetworkX.

• nngt - Library-agnostic graph generation and analysis that wraps around networkx, igraph and graph-tool). Includes normalized graph measures, advanced visualizations, (geo)spatial tools, and interfaces for neuroscience simulators.

• python-louvain - A solid implementation of Louvain community detection algorithm.

• scipy.sparse.csgraph - Fast graph algorithms based on sparse matrix representations.

• tnetwork (⭐12) - Python library for temporal networks, and dynamic community detection in particular.

Software / R

• brainGraph - Tools for performing graph theory analysis of brain MRI data.

• dodgr - Computes distances on dual-weighted directed graphs, such as street networks, using priority-queue shortest paths.

• egor - Tools for importing, analyzing and visualizing ego-centered network data, in various formats.

• EpiModel - Tools for simulating mathematical models of infectious disease dynamics (presentation paper).

• ergMargins - Process analysis for ERGMs.

• ergmito - ERGMs for small networks.

• fergm - Frailty ERGMs.

• goldfish (⭐55) - Dynamic Network Actor-Oriented Model (DyNAM) for the statistical analysis of coordination networks through time.

• graphlayouts - Layout algorithms based on the concept of stress majorization.
  • Introducing graphlayouts with Game of Thrones.
  • Network Visualizations in R using ggraph and graphlayouts.

• multinet - Tools for multilayer social networks.
  • Related book and data, and presentation article. See uunet for the Python version.

• migraph - A set of tools that extend common social network analysis packages for analysing multimodal and multilevel networks.

• networkD3 - Create d3.js network graphs from R.

• netrankr - Up-to-date collection of network centrality indices, with lots of documentation.
  • Network Centrality in R: An Introduction - Includes a review of relevant R packages.
  • Network Centrality in R: Neighborhood Inclusion.
  • Network Centrality in R: New Ways of Measuring Centrality (2018).

• spNetwork - Methods for spatial network analysis, including e.g. kernel density estimation, distances and point pattern analysis.

• statnet - The project behind many R network analysis packages (mailing-list, tutorials/workshops).
  • Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) Using statnet (2022).
  • Guides for Using the statnet Package (2010).
  • Modeling Valued Networks with statnet (2022).

Software / Syntaxes

• JGraphT - Java graph library for graph data structures and algorithms (example algorithms (⭐9)).

• JUNG - Java Universal Network/Graph Framework - Extensible library to represent network objects.

Varia / Tutorials

• (Psychological) Network Analysis Workshops - 3-day workshop on psychological network analysis using R (2019).

• Visualizing Historical Networks - Historical network research projects at Harvard University.
  • Angoulême in 1764.
  • Economists in Cambridge.
  • The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth Century History.

Varia / Blog Series

• Blog Posts About Networks by François Briatte, in French.

• Daniel Little’s blog posts on the philosophy of social science:
  • Networks.
  • Social Networks.

• Martin Grandjean’s blog posts about (mostly) network visualization, in English and French:
  • Network Analysis.
  • Social Networks.

• Networks Demystified, a series of blog posts by Scott B. Weingart.

• Netze und Netzwerke, in English and German - Blog on the history of network analysis, by Sebastian Gießmann (old blog).

• R / Notes: Networks - Blog posts focused on manipulating networks in R, by François Briatte.

• Yannick Rochat’s blog posts about digital humanities, in English and French:
  • Character Networks.
  • Network Analysis.

Varia / Fictional Networks

• Character Co-Occurrences in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, plotted as an adjacency matrix, written in Python (+ Javascript).

• Network Visualization: Mapping Shakespeare’s Tragedies.

• Social Network Analysis of Alice in Wonderland.

• Universal Properties of Mythological Networks (preprint).

Varia / Network Science

• From Albert-László Barabási’s review articles:
  • Taming Complexity.
  • The Network Takeover.

• The Invasion of the Physicists - How “network science” came up.

• Isolated Social Networkers, Networks and Netwars and The Inter-Disciplinary Politics of Interdisciplinary Research or, “Hey, That Was My Idea First.” - Series of blog posts that predate the advent of “network science” as a buzzword, but that touch upon the same issues as those now being discussed under that heading.

• Predicting Highly Cited Papers - Prediction of the next highly cited papers in network science.

Varia / Two-Mode Networks

• L’analyse des graphes bipartis, in French (2013).

• Basic Notions for the Analysis of Large Two-mode Networks (preprint, related code; Social Networks, 2008).

• Generalized Blockmodeling of Two-mode Network Data (preprint).

• Generalized Two-Mode Cores.

6. Awesome Web Archiving

Tools & Software / Acquisition

• Scoop (⭐82) - High-fidelity, browser-based, single-page web archiving library and CLI for witnessing the web. (Stable)

7. Awesome Generative Deep Art

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8. Awesome React

React General Resources

• React CodeSandbox Playground

React State Management and Data Fetching

• rxdb (⭐20k) - A fast, offline-first, reactive database for JavaScript Applications

React Maps

• react-map-gl (⭐7.5k) - React friendly API wrapper around MapboxGL JS

• react-leaflet (⭐4.9k) - React components for Leaflet maps

React Charts

• visx (⭐18k) - Visualization components

React Renderers

• remotion (⭐18k) - Make videos programmatically with React

React Native General Resources

• Expo Snack Playground

React Native Navigation

• react-navigation (⭐23k) - Routing and navigation for your React Native apps

• expo-router (⭐1.4k) - The File-based router for universal React Native apps

React Native Libraries

• react-native-device-info (⭐6.3k) - Device Information for React Native iOS and Android

9. Awesome Decentralized

Other

• m-ld: A software library enabling distributed applications to read and write shared information consistently with zero latency, using Semantic Web technology and CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types).

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