Glossary
- API:
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An application programming interface is an interface for software components to communicate with each other with a clear separation of components
- Homophily:
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Tendency to link to similar others
- Layout:
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Algorithm which calculates the position of elements in a graphic space
- Raster Image:
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Image encoded by a two-dimensional matrix of pixels
- Shortest Path:
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Minimal distance between two nodes of a network
- Sparkline:
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Small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolution
- Subgraph:
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Graph whose nodes and edges connecting these nodes are a subset of a graph
- Vector Image:
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Images encoded by a set of geometrical functions
Definition
Gephi was created in 2008 by Mathieu Bastian, Sébastien Heymann, and Mathieu Jacomy and extended by Eduardo Ramos Ibañez, Cezary Bartosiak, Julian Bilcke, Patrick McSweeney, André Panisson, Jérémy Subtil, Helder Suzuki, Martin Skurla, and Antonio...
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Heymann, S. (2017). Gephi. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_299-1
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