In this example, adapted from
Niko Gamulins blog post on Neo4j for Social Network Analysis,
the graph in question is showing the 2-hop relationships of a sample person as nodes with KNOWS
relationships.
The clustering coefficient of a selected node is defined as the probability that two randomly selected neighbors are connected to each other.
With the number of neighbors as n
and the number of mutual connections between the neighbors r
the calculation is:
The number of possible connections between two neighbors is n!/(2!(n-2)!) = 4!/(2!(4-2)!) = 24/4 = 6
,
where n
is the number of neighbors n = 4
and the actual number r
of connections is 1
.
Therefore the clustering coefficient of node 1 is 1/6
.
n
and r
are quite simple to retrieve via the following query:
Query.
MATCH (a)--(b) WITH a, count(DISTINCT b) AS n MATCH (a)--()-[r]-()--(a) WHERE a.name! = 'startnode' RETURN n, count(DISTINCT r) AS r
This returns n
and r
for the above calculations.
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