The beginning of winter is often the occasion to write programs. This year I wrote just for fun w2m.py, answering a question raised by my co-author Charles Bordenave. This Python 2.7 module+program consists in a spider which explores part of the World Wide Web, extracts the adjacency matrix, and computes its spectrum. Below the results for Wikipedia in Kabyle language. On the technical side, w2m.py has a simple object oriented code, which makes use of threading and numpy + matplotlib. I will hopefully convert it to Python 3.x some day (2to3). For Debian/GNU Linux, you may use apt-get install python-matplotlib python-scipy python-argparse in order to install all the necessary packages.

Related: The University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection (pointed out by Charles Bordenave).

Here is a chunk of the console output of w2m:

INFO:MainThread:_time_stamp():w2m.py 2011-12-28 12:27 http://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki
INFO:MainThread:work():please be patient, this may take some time
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INFO:MainThread:_time_stamp():w2m.py 2011-12-28 12:30 http://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki
INFO:MainThread:_time_stamp():w2m.py 2011-12-28 12:30 http://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki
INFO:MainThread:show():number of accepted vertices: 743
INFO:MainThread:show():number of accepted edges: 7547
INFO:MainThread:show():number of explored vertices: 714
INFO:MainThread:show():number of http get errors: 30
INFO:MainThread:show():number of analyzed urls: 744
INFO:MainThread:show():computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors
INFO:MainThread:_time_stamp():w2m.py 2011-12-28 12:30 http://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki

Last Updated on 2012-03-24

1. Florent Benaych-Georges 2011-12-28

Hi Djalil,

What do you mean by “each point corresponds to the localization of the associated eigenvector” ?

Besides, a stupid question : in the second figure (the one of the matrix), the white is where there is an edge, good ?

A plus,
flo

2. Djalil Chafaï 2011-12-28

In the first graphic, the grey level of point $(x,y)$ is the ratio $\left\Vert\cdot\right\Vert_\infty/\left\Vert\cdot\right\Vert_2$ for the eigenvector associated to the eigenvalue $x+iy$. In the second graphic, yes, white is edge. See the w2m.py code 😉 Best.

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