Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks

Gephi is an open source software for graph and network

analysis. It uses a 3D render engine to display large

networks in real-time and to speed up the exploration.

A flexible and multi-task architecture brings new pos-

sibilities to work with complex data sets and produce

valuable visual results. We present several key features

of Gephi in the context of interactive exploration and

interpretation of networks. It provides easy and broad

access to network data and allows for spatializing, fil-

tering, navigating, manipulating and clustering. Finally,

by presenting dynamic features of Gephi, we highlight

key aspects of dynamic network visualization.