The Network of Collaboration Among Rappers and its Community Structure
Abstract
Description
The social network formed by the collaboration between rappers is studied using standard statistical techniques for analyzing complex networks. In addition, the community structure of the rap music community is analyzed using a new method that uses weighted edges to determine which connections are most important and revealing among all the communities. The results of this method as well as possible reasons for the structure of the rap music community are discussed.
8 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables Accepted for publication in The Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. Minor changes in TeX style, added comments, table formatting corrected
8 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables Accepted for publication in The Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. Minor changes in TeX style, added comments, table formatting corrected