Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks
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Gephi is an open source software for graph and network analysis. It uses a 3D render engine to display large networks in real-time and to speed up the exploration. A flexible and multi-task architecture brings new possibilities to work with complex data sets and produce valuable visual results. We present several key features of Gephi in the context of interactive exploration and interpretation of networks. It provides easy and broad access to network data and allows for spatializing, filtering, navigating, manipulating and clustering. Finally, by presenting dynamic features of Gephi, we highlight key aspects of dynamic network visualization.
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Gephi processes large networks with complex datasets in real time and produces visual results that are valuable to explore and interpret networks.
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- Authors
- Bastian, M., Heymann, S., & Jacomy, M.
- Affiliations
- ParisTech (FR)
- ORCID
- Jacomy, Mathieu
- Venue
- Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
- Published
- 2009-03-19
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 361-362
- ISSN
- 2162-3449 (ISSN-L)
- 2334-0770
- OpenAlex
- W2125910575
- Cited by
- 11,675
- References
- 6
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- FWCI
- 51.18
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (publishedVersion)
- AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Data Visualization and Analytics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Graph Theory and Algorithms
- Keywords
- Gephi, network visualization, graph analysis, dynamic network visualization, 3D rendering, network clustering, network filtering, open source software
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