Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks

TLDR

Gephi is an open‑source graph and network analysis tool with a flexible, multi‑task architecture that enables handling complex datasets and generating valuable visual results. The paper showcases Gephi’s key features for interactive exploration, interpretation, and dynamic visualization of networks. Gephi employs a 3D render engine for real‑time large‑network display and offers broad data access, spatialization, filtering, navigation, manipulation, and clustering. The authors demonstrate that Gephi’s dynamic features enable effective visualization of evolving networks.

Abstract

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.