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Exercise

Calculate out-degree scores

In a retweet network, the out-degree of a user indicates the number of times the user retweets posts.

Users with high out-degree scores are key players who can be used as a medium to retweet promotional posts.

Can you identify users who can be used as a medium to retweet promotional posts for a travel portal?

The retweet network on #travel has been pre-loaded as nw_rtweet.

The library igraph has been pre-loaded for this exercise.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Calculate out-degree scores from the retweet network.
  • Sort the out-degree scores in decreasing order.
  • View users with the top 10 out-degree scores.