Description
1. Overview of the Assignment
In this assignment, you will s implement your own Girvan- Newman algorithm using the Spark Framework to
detect communities in graphs. You will use the ub_sample_data.csv dataset to find users who have a similar
business taste. The goal of this assignment is to help you understand how to use the Girvan-Newman algorithm
to detect communities in an efficient way within a distributed environment.
2. Requirements
2.1 Programming Requirements
a. You must use Python to implement all tasks. There will be 10% bonus for each task if you also
submit a Scala implementation and both your Python and Scala implementations are correct.
b. You can ONLY use Spark RDD and standard Python or Scala libraries.
2.2 Programming Environment
Python 3.6, Scala 2.11 and Spark 2.3.3
We will use these library versions to compile and test your code. There will be a 20% penalty if we cannot run
your code due to the library version inconsistency.
2.3 Write your own code
Do not share code with other students!!
For this assignment to be an effective learning experience, you must write your own code! We emphasize this
point because you will be able to find Python implementations of some of the required functions on the web.
Please do not look for or at any such code!
TAs will combine all the code we can find from the web (e.g., Github) as well as other students’ code from this
and other (previous) sections for plagiarism detection. We will report all detected plagiarism.
2.4 What you need to turn in
Your submission must be a zip file with the name convention: firstname_lastname_hw4.zip (all lowercase,
e.g., junyu_liu_hw4.zip). You should pack the following required (and optional) files in the zip file (see Figure 1):
a. [REQUIRED] two Python scripts, named: (all lowercase)
firstname_lastname_task1.py
b1. [OPTIONAL] two Scala scripts, named: (all lowercase)
firstname_lastname_task1.scala
b2. [OPTIONAL] one jar package, named: (all lowercase)
firstname_lastname_hw4.jar
c. [OPTIONAL] You can include other scripts to support your programs and also name it with the prefix:
“firstname_lastname_” (e.g. junyu_liu_Graph.py)
d. You don’t need to include your results. We will grade on your code with our testing data (data will be in the
same format).
Figure 1: Submission Structure
3. Datasets
You will continue to use Yelp dataset. We have generated a sub-dataset, sample_data.csv, from the Yelp review
dataset containing user_id and business_id. You can download it from Blackboard.
4. Tasks
4.1 Graph Construction
To construct the social network graph, each node represents a user and there will be an edge between two
nodes if the number of times that two users review the same business is greater than or equivalent to the filter
threshold. For example, suppose user1 reviewed [business1, business2, business3] and user2 reviewed
[business2, business3, business4, business5]. If the threshold is 2, there will be an edge between user1 and
user2.
If the user node has no edge, we will not include that node in the graph.
NOTICE: In this assignment, the filter threshold is 7.
4.2 Task1: Community Detection Based on Girvan-Newman algorithm (12.5 pts)
In, you will implement your own Girvan-Newman algorithm to detect the communities in the
network graph. You can refer to the Chapter 10 from the Mining of Massive Datasets book for the
algorithm details.
For this homework, you can ONLY use Spark RDD and standard Python or Scala libraries.
4.2.1 Betweenness Calculation (6 pts)
In this part, you will calculate the betweenness of each edge in the original graph.
Then you need to save your result in a txt file. The format of each line is
(‘user_id1’, ‘user_id2’), betweenness value
Your result should be firstly sorted by the betweenness values in the descending order and then the first
user_id in the tuple in lexicographical order (the user_id is type of string). The two user_ids in each tuple
should also in lexicographical order. You do not need to round your result.
Figure 3: betweenness output file format
4.2.2 Community Detection (6.5 pts)
You are required to divide the graph into suitable communities, which reaches the global highest modularity.
The formula of modularity is shown below:
According to the Girvan-Newman algorithm, after removing one edge, you should re-compute the betweenness.
The “m” in the formula represents the edge number of the original graph. The “A” in the formula is the
adjacent matrix of the original graph. (Hint: In each remove step, “m” and “A” should not be changed).
If the community only has one user node, we still regard it as a valid community.
You need to save your result in a txt file. The format is the same with the output file from task1.
4.2.3 Output Result
In this task, you need to save your result of communities in a txt file. Each line represents one community and
the format is:
‘user_id1’, ‘user_id2’, ‘user_id3’, ‘user_id4’, …
Your result should be firstly sorted by the size of communities in the ascending order and then the first user_id
in the community in lexicographical order (the user_id is type of string). The user_ids in each community
should also be in the lexicographical order.
If there is only one node in the community, we still regard it as a valid community.
Figure 2: community output file format
4.3 Execution Format
Execution example:
Python:
spark-submit –class firstname_lastname_task1 firstname_lastname_hw4.jar
Input parameters:
1. : the filter threshold to generate edges between user nodes.
2. : the path to the input file including path, file name and extension.
3. : the path to the betweenness output file including path, file name and
extension.
4. : the path to the community output file including path, file name and
extension.
Execution time:
The overall runtime of your task (from reading the input file to finishing writing the
community output file) should be less than 180 seconds.
If your runtime is between 180 seconds and 240 seconds, there will be 20% penalty. If
your runtime exceeds 300 seconds, there will be 50% penalty for this task.
5. Grading Criteria
(% penalty = % penalty of possible points you get)
1. You can use your free 5-day extension separately or together.
2. There will be 10% bonus if you use both Scala and Python.
3. If you do not apply the Girvan-Newman algorithm, there will be no point for this task.
4. If we cannot run your programs with the command we specified, there will be 80% penalty.
5. If your program cannot run with the required Scala/Python/Spark versions, there will be 20% penalty.
6. If the outputs of your program are unsorted or partially sorted, there will be 50% penalty.
7. The total runtime of this assignment should not exceed 10 minutes or there will be no point for this
assignment.
8. We can regrade on your assignments within seven days once the scores are released. No argue after one
week. There will be 20% penalty if our grading is correct.
9. There will be 20% penalty for late submission within a week and no point after a week.
10. Only when your results from Python are correct, the bonus of using Scala will be calculated. There is no
partially point for Scala. See the example below:
Example situations
Task Score for Python Score for Scala
(10% of previous column if correct) Total
Task1 Correct: 12.5 points Correct: 12.5 * 10% 13.75
Task1 Wrong: 0 point Correct: 0 * 10% 0.0
Task1 Partially correct: 6 points Correct: 6 * 10% 6.6
Task1 Partially correct: 6 points Wrong: 0 6.6
