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`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":31,"value":"md`- Download the [Caltech36 Facebook Network](http://networkrepository.com/socfb-Caltech36.php) data from [here](http://nrvis.com/download/data/socfb/socfb-Caltech36.zip). When extracted, this dataset will contain a file called \\`socfb-Caltech36.mtx\\` in [Matrix Market File Format](http://networkrepository.com/mtx-matrix-market-format.html).`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":17,"value":"input = FileAttachment(\"socfb-Caltech36.mtx\").text()","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":36,"value":"md`- Read the contents into a [graph data structure](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8P9kB1eun4). 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Apply [Benford’s Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#:~:text=Benford's%20law%2C%20also%20called%20the,life%20sets%20of%20numerical%20data.&text=If%20the%20digits%20were%20distributed,about%2011.1%25%20of%20the%20time.) to the collected friend counts of each friend of each user to transform that into a record containing:\n - user id\n - the distribution of first significant digit of each friend's friend count\n - the total number of friends`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":69,"value":"records = {\n return g.nodes().map(node => {\n const digitDistribution = _.times(9, () => 0)\n const friends = node.outgoers().nodes()\n friends.forEach(friend => {\n const friendCount = friend.indegree()\n const digit = parseInt(`${friendCount}`[0], 10)\n if (digit) {\n digitDistribution[digit - 1] += 1\n }\n })\n return {\n userId: node.data().id,\n totalFriends: friends.length,\n digitDistribution\n }\n })\n}","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":145,"value":"md`- For each record that has a friend count greater than X, test its [Goodness of Fit](https://stattrek.com/chi-square-test/goodness-of-fit.aspx) to the [expected frequency distribution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Definition) of Benford’s Law. Output all the users that fall below a threshold of Y. 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