Welcome to Gephi! Gephi is an open-source software for visualizing and analysing large networks graphs. Gephi uses a 3D render engine to display graphs in real-time and speed up the exploration. You can use it to explore, analyse, spatialise, filter, cluterize, manipulate and export all types of graphs.
Getting Started
New to Gephi? These guides are for you. The following pages should introduce you to the Gephi project, basic features and installation.
Quick Start Guide Supported Graph File Formats
- Goals and Principles of the project
- System Requirements, Installation, Release Notes
- User interface description
- Exported File Formats
Official Tutorials
Gephi is really easy to handle if you learn the basics. Let's follow these tutorials to quickly manage the main features!
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Popular Tutorials by the Community:
- Using Netvizz & Gephi to Analyze a Facebook Network
- Getting Started With The Gephi – My Facebook Network
- Dynamic Networks in Gephi: From Twapperkeeper to GEXF
- Generating graphs of retweets and @-messages on Twitter using R and Gephi
- Text Network Analysis
- Visualize keywords and landing pages from Google Analytics
Various Tutorials in Video:
- How to group elements, apply filters, use the timeline, and receive a live graph stream.
- Facebook Network Analysis
- Text Network Analysis
- Proliferating Information through Communities
- PubMed-derived Citation Data
Non-English Tutorials:
In French:
- Analyser graphiquement son réseau facebook
- Cartographier vos informations avec Gephi
- Introduction aux graphes avec Neo4j et Gephi
- Exploration visuelle d’un netlinking, réseaux de données, et plus encore… (Part I)
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In Chinese:
Datasets
Let's download and try some datasets available on the wiki, like C.elegans brain network or the web mapping study EuroSiS for the European Union.
Practical cases
A Twitter tag, #madewithgephi, has been adopted to tell when Gephi was used. You can find a compilation of (some! of) these works on the forum.
Mailing list
There is an explicitly low traffic announcement mailing list, where we publish sporadic news about Gephi. You may register at [gephi-announce].
Forum
New users are welcome to post questions at the Gephi Support Forums. If you have a technical problem and have read the frequently asked support questions, and still can't find the answer, register then click the "[Create New Topic]" link and fill out the form to pose your question to forum members.
Wiki
The Community portal centralizes all information for a better life :)
IRL Community
A Gephi supporter may live in your street! Find him/her on the world map and share your experiences in data analysis with Gephi around a beer.
How to organize a meeting?
- Put a marker on the map to set the place of meeting and detailed information.
- Contact the local members you find on the map.
- Inform us on the forum by giving details on the event location and date.
- We advertise your event through the Gephi official blog and social media: Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
View Gephi Community in a larger map
Papers
Published papers highlight Gephi usages and techniques. We have a collection of papers in which reseachers use Gephi, or explaining the underlying ideas.
Roadmap
Discover our roadmap and submit your whishes in this wiki page.
History
Find out who is behind the project, the Gephi Team, and our story.FAQ
A list of common problems and their solutions can be found in the Support Forums. Technical issues only may be adressed in our Tech FAQ. You can ask your technical questions here.Store
Proud to be part of the Gephi Community? On our fresh new store you can buy mugs, T-shirts and more to show it!
More interested in reading books? Here you'll find books to discover the key theories beyond networks, information visualization and best practices in programming. They give valuable information for understanding what is guiding the people who are developing Gephi. More info.
