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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Gephi - graph vizualization and manipulation software

Gephi is a popular and powerful software tool which allows the user to create, import, manipulate, and visualize graphs of considerable complexity. All graph data can be easily manipulated. Gephi is capable of sophisticated analysis of graph characteristics. Import and export can be done in a wide variety of formats, which importantly include GraphML and a couple of other most popular formats. There is also CSV import/export option, which allows the user to archive and edit data in spreadsheet and other applications, as well as perform database import/export.

Gephi is described in a Wikipedia article. The project is sponsored by Google.
From initial experience, it appears that Gephi has the potential to fill the role of the graphic editor of meta-task requests. It can serve as the basis for creation and maintenance of meta-tasks templates. Another interesting possibility is to use Gephi as a turnkey meta-task monitoring tool, which only requires periodic dumps of meta-task data from Deft to operate.

Gephi encompasses a rich graph analytics toolkit. The screenshots below only illustrate the most basic functions of Gephi, which is graph visualization and graph data manipulation.They also demonstrate flexibility in choosing characteristics of the graph rendering.


Graph Visualization in Gephi (click to enlarge)


Data Editing Window (click to enlarge)
Different visualization style (click to enlarge)

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