Dynamic Networks

When time matters

Gephi, in addition with its realtime layout processing abilities, is also able to manage dynamic networks. By dynamic network, we mean graphs whose structure or content associated to nodes varies over time.

Having a tool able to work with these kinds of data is very important when you want to study dynamic structures, such as communities and social networks, and recent research are moving toward this direction.

Import dynamic graphs

Gephi comes with its own temporal graph file format, the GEXF. A description of the GEXF file format is available here.

Changes History

Gephi will log every single modification made to your workspaces since the program is running. This is useful to track down changes made to the graph and debug external datasources.

Stay tuned!

We are currently working on a new navigation tools to work with such dynamic graphs, like a timeline navigation bar, and thumbnails view. All these tools are still in an earlier development phase, but they will be integrated into Gephi as soon as they areready.

Inter-operability

External data sources

Unveil the power of the dynamic engine by connecting Gephi to external data sources. Gephi let you use special components called Datasources, that can communicate and send any data to the dynamic engine, and at any time. The datasource engine has been made in order to allow you to use third parties databases and softwares as graph sources.

Rediscover your applications

You can use the datasource engine to connect Gephi to your existent projects and software. Creating a new datasource is really easy even for a novice developers, and you are free to use whatever technology is available on the Java platform, like client-servers protocols.

Do your business

The datasources can bring their own interface panel if needed, and you are free to create new panels, changing their appearance, showing your company’s or institute’s brand.

Connect to the world

Datasources are made to be distributed, and although only one example will be packaged in the default Gephi distribution, you will be able to find new and public datasources in the Gephi Community.