Overview

cdlib is a powerful Python package that allows for extracting, comparing, and evaluating communities from complex networks.

The potential audience for cdlib includes mathematicians, physicists, biologists, computer scientists, and social scientists.

Most importantly, cdlib is free, well-supported, and a joy to use.

Goals

cdlib aims to provide:

  • a standard programming interface and community discovery implementations that are suitable for many applications,

  • a rapid development environment for collaborative, multidisciplinary projects.

CDlib is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License. We welcome contributions from the community.

EU H2020

CDlib is a result of a stream of European H2020 projects:

  • SoBigData “Social Mining & Big Data Ecosystem”: under the scheme “INFRAIA-1-2014-2015: Research Infrastructures”, grant agreement #654024.

  • “SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics” (http://www.sobigdata.eu);

  • “SoBigData.it – Strengthening the Italian RI for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics” – Prot. IR0000013 – Avviso n. 3264 del 28/12/2021;

  • FAIR: Future Artificial Intelligence Research. EU NextGenerationEU programme under the funding schemes PNRR-PE-AI.