Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.
Gephi is an open-source software for network visualization and analysis. It helps data analysts to intuitively reveal patterns and trends, highlight outliers and tells stories with their data. It uses a 3D render engine to display large graphs in real-time and to speed up the exploration. Gephi combines built-in functionalities and flexible architecture to:
- explore
- analyze
- spatialize
- filter
- cluster
- manipulate
- export
all types of networks.
Gephi is based on a visualize-and-manipulate paradigm which allow any user to discover networks and data properties. Moreover, it is designed to follow the chain of a case study, from data file to nice printable maps.
Gephi is a free/libre software distributed under the GPL 3 (“GNU General Public License”).
About Network Science
Network Science is a new and emerging scientific discipline that examines the interconnections among diverse physical, informational, biological, cognitive, and social networks. This field of science seeks to discover common principles, algorithms and tools that govern network behavior. The National Research Council defines Network Science as “the organized knowledge of networks based on their study using the scientific method.” In this context, network visualization brings a complementary way to statistical analysis to discover, extract and classify new patterns in network structure and data.
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_science
Features
Gephi is a tool for data analysts and scientists keen to explore and understand graphs. Like Photoshop™ but for graph data, the user interacts with the 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. It is a complementary tool to traditional statistics, as visual thinking with interactive interfaces is now recognized to facilitate reasoning. This is a software for Exploratory Data Analysis, a paradigm appeared in the Visual Analytics field of research.
Source:
https://gephi.org/
https://gephi.org/features/
https://gephi.org/users/download/
https://gephi.org/plugins/#/
https://gephi.org/users/
https://gephi.org/developers/
https://github.com/gephi/gephi