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Python installation consumes a bit more time because it should be properly downloaded in the right environment with all the necessary packages [13]. The standard version of python can be installed from the following link [https://www.python.org/downloads/].

Different versions of Python with respect to the type of OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) can be found under this link.

Some important package for SNA is pandas, matplotlib, and NetworkX. All these packages can be installed via pip installation.

 – pip install pandas

 – pip install network

 – pip install matplotlib

NetworkX is an important library used to analyze social network in Python [14]. The package is mainly created to analyze the functions of complex graph structure. It is a free package under BSD license.

Figure 2.7 Python official documentation.