LibGuides: HSL Digital Union Software: Gephi

What This Software Does

Gephi is a tool for data analysts and scientists to explore and understand graphs. The user interacts with the graph’s representation, manipulate the structures, shapes and colors to reveal hidden patterns. The goal is to help data analysts to make hypothesis, intuitively discover patterns, isolate structure singularities or faults during data sourcing.

About Gelphi
Learn more about the program on their website.

How Can I Use This Software?

Gephi helps data analysts to intuitively reveal patterns and trends, highlight outliers and tells stories with their data. Gephi also allows users to display large graphs in real-time and to speed up the exploration.

Tutorials

Gephi
Gephi’s website instructs users on how to get started and also puts out a visualization and layout tutorial for its main features. These include slide-by-slide instructions and also downloadable PDFs.
Duke University Libraries
This comprehensive guide gives instructions from downloading and setting up the program to analyzing data. The guide also includes tutorial slides, handouts, and videos. This page also includes a forum, wiki, and support to answer possible Gephi questions.
edX
Sponsored by the University of Texas Arlington, this data analysis course allows users to perform analysis from their data, mostly for social network. The course also includes tutorials for other softwares to use in combination with Gephi. Enrolling in this 9-week course requires about 5 hours per week.

Recommended E-Books

Mastering Gephi Network Visualization by Ken Cherven
Publication Date: 2015-01-28
This book is intended for anyone interested in advanced network analysis. If you wish to master the skills of analyzing and presenting network graphs effectively, then this is the book for you. No coding experience is required to use this book, although some familiarity with the Gephi user interface will be helpful.
Network Graph Analysis and Visualization with Gephi by Ken Cherven
Publication Date: 2013-09-24
A practical, hands-on guide, that provides you with all the tools you need to visualize and analyze your data using network graphs with Gephi.This book is for data analysts who want to intuitively reveal patterns and trends, highlight outliers, and tell stories with their data using Gephi. It is great for anyone looking to explore interactions within network datasets, whether the data comes from social media or elsewhere. It is also a valuable resource for those seeking to learn more about Gephi without being overwhelmed by technical details.

OSU Library Catalog
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Open Access Textbooks

Network Visualization with Gephi
While not a textbook, this helpful PDF teaches users to set up Gephi and work through its functions, all while including images for descriptions.

Downloads

Download Gephi
Gephi is freely available to any user for use on a personal machine.

Costs

Free

Technical Requirements

Gephi is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux users. Minumum hardware requirement is 128 MB RAM and Java 7 or 8. A compatible graphic card is also required.