Centralized & Scale Free Networks

Follow along with the course eBook: https://systemsinnovation.io/books/ Take the full course: https://systemsinnovation.io/courses/ Twitter: http://bit.ly/2JuNmXX LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2YCP2U6 In this module we looked at networks that have the highest degree distribution making their topology very heterogeneous in terms of the distribution of connectivity, these networks may have one or a few nodes with a very high degree of connectivity forming global hubs within the network and very many with a much smaller degree of connectivity Transcription excerpt: let's start by taking a few examples of these centralized systems, if we look at his network of global banking activity with nodes representing the absolute size of assets booked in the respective jurisdiction and the edges between them the exchange of financial assets, with data taken from the IMF. We can then see clearly how a very few core nodes dominate this network, there are approximately 200 countries in the world but the