Community ~ translation
If you want to contribute to the Gephi project, you can greatly help us on translating the Gephi user interface. Lots of people are not ease with English. The goal of our localization program is to distribute Gephi also in French, Spanish (available since Gephi 0.8alpha) and other languages the community will ask for. In Gephi, simply go to Tools -> Languages to switch.
Getting started is very simple! Follow these steps:
- Create an account on Transifex.
- Ask to be part of a Translation Team.
- If no team is set for your language, please ask to create one here.
- When accepted, start translating it!
We launched the system this weekend, and people already started to translate in Portuguese, Arabic and Russian!
Note: when you start to translate a resource, Transifex grants you a “write lock” on it for 48h. It means that you will be the only one able to edit this resource in your language during this period, thus avoiding conflicts.
Read the forum thread to get involved.
Community consortium ~
The Gephi Consortium is the non-profit organization (NGO) that help the Gephi community to grow. We are pleased to welcome Nodus Labs as an associate company!
Founded by Dmitry Paranyushkin, Nodus Labs is a creative bureau dedicated to researching communities, communication, and human interfaces through the frameworks of complexity theory, network science, and artistic practice. They develop ThisIsLike.Com – an online mnemonic network that can be used by anyone to retain and share their knowledge and and regularly do talks on analyzing one’s social networks, creating strong temporary communities, and write research on sustainable communities structures mainly for the arts field.
We actively use Gephi in our work and are dedicated to helping develop and publicize this software as we believe it’s a great user-friendly tool that can help people tackle such a difficult but omnipresent subject as networks in such an easy way. And it’s totally pleasure to use!
They will start a Gephi User Group in Berlin, please contact Dmitry to know more. The events will be announced on the Gephi blog.
ThisIsLike.Com
Uncategorized ~ conference icwsm tutorial
Sébastien Heymann and Julian Bilcke gave yesterday the official Gephi tutorial at the ICWSM conference, in Barcelona. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. This is also a special conference for us because we introduced Gephi for the first time 2 years ago, at the 3rd ICWSM conference.
Thought the tutorial was not recorded, you’ll find here the slides of the tutorial.
This month about 80 people were trained to Gephi thanks to the fundings we receive at our non-profit organization, the Gephi Consortium: 40 people at ICWSM, but also 20 people at UKSNA and 20 people at the French Complex System summer school. We will have our next talk at ECCS, the European Conference on Complex Systems. Looking forward to see you there!
Exhibition Networks ~ dataset hackathon visualization
This week end at the data in sight hackathon in San Francisco, one of the winning team worked with Gephi and the cool Marvel dataset provided by Infochimps.
From Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, Kai Chang, Tom Turner, and Jefferson Braswell were tuning their visualizations and had a lot of fun exploring Spiderman or Captain america ego network. They came with these beautiful snapshots and created a zoomable web version using the Seadragon plugin. The won the “Most aesthetically pleasing visualization” category, congratulations to Kai, Tom and Jefferson for their amazing work!
The datasets have been added to the wiki Datasets page, so you can play with it and maybe calculate some metrics like centrality on the network. The graph is pretty large, so be sure to increase you Gephi memory settings with > 2GB.
Events ~ hackathon
Creative Commons, the Netherlands Office for Science and Technology and Swissnex San Francisco is organizing a weekend hackathon about data visualization in which Mathieu Bastian will give a demo of Gephi. The event is called “data in sight: making the transparent visual“, and runs June 24-26 at Adobe in SOMA (in San Francisco).
Join us for data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition held June 25th and 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District. Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists, members of the media—anyone who believes that data is divine and has ideas for bringing it to life.
During the hackaton, Mathieu will help teams to code Gephi plug-ins or mashups. Ideas go from live data streaming to layouts, filters or web widgets. If you have ideas, please come to the forum to open a discussion.
Visit the website to learn more about the schedule, data available and advisory committee.
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