Purpose ======= This document is what I'd call a "ridealong" -- it's intended a quick repository of observations and hints that I kept as annotation to the project README and install guides I found online. It's not a substitute for your own research and good judgment. That said, I found the whole process relatively straightforward, so the other purpose here is to encourage Mac users to just give it a try. Software Setup =================== - Python and R I initially thought I would use my IDEs (R Studio and Spyder via Anaconda) for a lot of this project, but it turned out that command line was the easier way to go when running the python scripts. - iGraph. I installed this as part of all the python lib installs rather than dealing with it standalone. It's "python-igraph" in that case. - Python libraries install. These were almost all present in Spyder/Anaconda, except for python-igraph and sklearn. Just calling install didn't work, so I ended up installing them via pip -- conda didn't work. Here's an interesting link about conda vs pip: https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2017/12/05/installing-python-packages-from-jupyter/ Later on, I ended up installing homebrew package manager to get the final make to work -- I could've probably saved a bit of time by installing it earlier. - R libraries install. This worked fine from inside R studio, but later in the process I ended up using Terminal to run the scripts from the chapter build process itself. Data Cleaning =============== I copy-pasted all these commands into Terminal, and they just worked. Yay. Running Analyses ================ To get infomap, I had to clone with: git clone http://github.com/mapequation/infomap My old Macbook Air handled the computational load just fine, so don't be scared about the memory warnings in the general README. The Gephi analysis did run forever (I didn't stay up long enough to watch it do its thing, if you want to know what kind of forever I mean), but it stopped actually updating or changing after a while. Just hit stop when the rainbow jelly ball starts trembling instead of really moving around. I never did get it to look like the one in the paper TBH but I took that to be aesthetic. Chapter-Building ================ Here's where I found I needed to install homebrew, so that I could install all the moreutils (sponge!) and run the compile. The LateX build process spit out a ton of errors -- not just the usual whining about underfull hbox badness, but also stopping on various reference compiling errors. Never fear: if you page through them, it'll work in the end. And done! -Kaylea Champion 2.23.2018 kaylea@uw.edu