social contagion

code to reproduce simulations and plots for our paper entitled, Long ties accelerate noisy threshold-based contagions, available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03579

getting started

software

• R 3.5.1
• Python 3.6
• ggplot2 3.3.6

Depending on the size of the dataset and parameters simulations, user might require access to high-performance computing (HPC)

simulations execution:

Settings:

• settings.py: define the params,network_group, spreading_models, simulation settings, modes settings and etc.

• models.py: define the spread models and params

Computaion

• computing_spread_time_c1_c2_interpolation.py: Python file to compute spread times in c1_c2_interpolation and store the results in pickled files.

• computing_spread_time_c1_union_ER_w_delta.py: Python file to compute spread times in c1_union_ER with different delta nd store the results in pickled files.

• computing_spread_time_c1_union_ER_w_rho.py: Python file to compute spread times in c1_union_ER with different rho and store the results in pickled files.

• computing_spread_time_ck_union_ER.py: Python file to compute spread times in c1_union_ER and store the results in pickled files.

• computing_spread_time_lattice_union_ER.py: Python file to compute spread times in lattice_union_ER and store the results in pickled files.

• computing_spread_time_lattice_union_ER_vs_network_size.py: Python file to compute spread times in lattice_union_ER with different network size and store the results in pickled files.

• measuring_spread_time_real_networks.py: Python file to measure spread times in real networks and store the results in pickled files.

• measuring_strcutural_properties_real_networks.py: Python file to measure strcutural properties in real networks and store the results in pickled files.

Data Dumping

• dump_properties_data.py: Python file to dump strcutural properties in real networks using outputs for measuring_strcutural_properties_real_networks.py

• dump_spreading_data.py: Python file to dump spreading data in real networks using outputs for measuring_spread_time_real_networks.py

• dump_spread_time_c_k_union_ER.py: Python file to dump spreading data in c_k_union_ER using outputs for computing_spread_time_ck_union_ER.py

Visualization

• plot_Quantile_fractional_series.R: R script to generate pdf files for quantile fractional using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_activation_functions.py: Python file to generate pdf files for activation functions

• plot_boxed_group_mean_average_clustering.R: R script to generate pdf files for average clustering using outputs for dump_properties_data.py

• plot_boxed_group_mean_spreading_times.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_chami_networks.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_square_layout_graphs.py: Python file to generate pdf files of simulation of square layout layout = 'lattice'.

• plot_circular_layout_graphs.py: Python file to generate pdf files of simulation of circular layout layout = 'circular'.

• plot_empirical_adoption_rates.R: R script to generate pdf files for empirical adoption rates

• plot_group_mean_spreading_times_by_intervention_size.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_group_mean_spreading_times_by_network_size.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_properties_banerjee.R: R script to generate pdf files for properties of banerjee dataset using outputs for dump_properties_data.py

• plot_spread_time_c_k_union_ER.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spread_time_c_k_union_ER.py

• plot_spread_time_c1_c2_interpolation.py: Python file to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for computing_spread_time_c1_c2_interpolation.py

• plot_spread_time_c1_union_ER_w_delta.py: Python file to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for computing_spread_time_c1_union_ER_w_delta.py

• plot_spread_time_histograms.py: Python file to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for measuring_spread_time_real_networks.py

• plot_spread_time_lattice_union_ER.py: Python file to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for computing_spread_time_lattice_union_ER.py

• plot_spread_time_lattice_union_ER_vs_network_size.R: Python file to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for computing_spread_time_lattice_union_ER_vs_network_size.py

• plot_spreading_times_banerjee.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_spreading_times_cai.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_spreading_times_chami.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_spreading_times_chami_union.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_spreading_times_fb.R: R script to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for dump_spreading_data.py

• plot_structural_properties_histograms.py: Python file to generate pdf files for histograms of structural properties using outputs for measuring_strcutural_properties_real_networks.py

• ploting_spread_time_c1_union_ER_w_rho.py: Python file to generate pdf files for spreading times using outputs for computing_spread_time_c1_union_ER_w_rho.py

• video_generating.py: Python file to generate video files for simulation of spreading using outputs for visualizing_spread.py

• visualizing_spread.py: Python file to generate video files for simulation of spreading using outputs for itself