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Overview
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``cdlib`` is a powerful Python package that allows for extracting, comparing, and evaluating communities from complex networks.

The potential audience for ``cdlib`` includes mathematicians, physicists, biologists, computer scientists, and social scientists.

Most importantly, ``cdlib`` is free, well-supported, and a joy to use.

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Goals
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``cdlib`` aims to provide:

- a standard programming interface and community discovery implementations that are suitable for many applications,
- a rapid development environment for collaborative, multidisciplinary projects.

``CDlib`` is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License.
We welcome contributions from the community.

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EU H2020
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``CDlib`` is a result of a stream of European H2020 projects:

- SoBigData_ “Social Mining & Big Data Ecosystem”: under the scheme “INFRAIA-1-2014-2015: Research Infrastructures”, grant agreement #654024.
- "SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics" (http://www.sobigdata.eu);
- "SoBigData.it – Strengthening the Italian RI for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics" – Prot. IR0000013 – Avviso n. 3264 del 28/12/2021;
- FAIR: Future Artificial Intelligence Research. EU NextGenerationEU programme under the funding schemes PNRR-PE-AI.


.. _SoBigData: http://www.sobigdata.eu