Companion tutorial for the paper: Qualitative and quantitative network descriptors reveal complementary patterns of change in temporal food web dynamics by S. Kortsch, R. Frelat, L. Pecuchet, P. Olivier, I. Putnis, E. Bonsdorff, H. Ojaveer, I. Jurgensone, S. Strāķe, G. Rubene, Ē. Krūze, and M. Nordström.