3 Characterizing and preparing network data# 3.1 Properties of Networks 3.2 Node Properties and Relationships 3.3 Network summary statistics 3.4 Degree Matrices and Laplacians 3.5 Subnetworks and Connected Components 3.6 Regularization and node pruning 3.7 Edge Regularization 3.8 Edge-weight global rescaling Code Reproducibility contains all of the code as-provided in the manuscript for the entire section.