Getting Started (Tutorials)

Use these tutorials to install py3plex and complete your first multilayer network analysis in small, ordered steps.

What’s in this section:

• Installation and Setup — Installation options and dependencies

• Quick Start Tutorial — Comprehensive 10-minute tutorial from basics to advanced analysis

• Common Issues and Troubleshooting — Solutions to installation and runtime problems

Why Tutorials?

These pages are learning-oriented—they walk through concrete steps to build skills and confidence. How-to guides assume you already know the task; tutorials take you from a blank environment to a finished result.

How to use this section

Start with a clean environment if possible. Pick the path below that matches your background and follow it in order.

Recommended Path

Complete Beginner?

1. Installation and Setup — Set up your environment

2. Quick Start Tutorial — Build a first multilayer network and run core analyses

3. How-to Guides — Apply what you learned to specific tasks

Experienced with Networks?

1. Skim Quick Start Tutorial for py3plex syntax and features

2. Jump to How-to Guides for task-oriented guides

3. Review The py3plex Core Model for the data model

Having Problems?

See Common Issues and Troubleshooting for troubleshooting help.

What You’ll Learn

After completing these tutorials, you’ll know how to:

• Install py3plex and its dependencies

• Create multilayer networks from scratch or load them from files

• Compute basic statistics, centrality, and community structure

• Visualize multilayer networks

• Query networks with the DSL

Next Steps After Tutorials:

• How-to Guides — Task-oriented recipes

• Multilayer Networks 101 — Theory and design

• Examples & Recipes — Additional worked examples

• API Documentation — Full API reference

Relation to Other Sections:

This section teaches by doing. Other sections serve different purposes:

• Overview (Overview) — High-level introduction without code

• How-to Guides (How-to Guides) — Solve specific problems (assumes basic knowledge)

• Concepts (Concepts & Explanations) — Understand the theory and design

• Reference (API & DSL Reference) — Look up API details