Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Gephi
Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of
networks and complex systems, dynamic graphs, and hierarchical graphs. It is
developedbytheGephiConsortium,anot-for-proitlegalentityinFrancecreated
to ensure future developments of Gephi. They aim to develop a number of tools in
an open source ecosystem, focused on the visualization and analysis of large
networks in real-time. Their tagline,
Like Photoshop but for data
, gives you a good
feel of what they want to do: Gephi helps data analysts intuitively reveal patterns
and trends, highlight outliers, and tell stories with their data.
Gephi graph visualization and analysis
The toolset runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X and has a very extensible
architecture that, for example, allows you to import and export Neo4j databases.
What makes Gephi interesting from my perspective is its capability to do both graph
visualization and, at least for small-to-medium sized graphs, graph analytics. It can
be of great help in discovering new patterns in your data—even those patterns that
you are currently not aware of.
