2.2 · Lesson

Louvain Community Detection

In Lesson 1, you explored the fraud dataset and saw how fraudsters connect through Full definition for transaction (opens in a new tab)A unit of work that either succeeds in full or leaves no trace. and shared infrastructure.

Now let's understand the algorithm that we'll use to find communities of connected suspects: Full definition for Louvain algorithm (opens in a new tab)A community detection algorithm that repeatedly merges nodes into groups for as long as merging raises modularity..