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Gephi

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Synonyms

Exploratory network analysis; Network visualization; Open source; Visual analytics

Glossary

API:

An application programming interface is an interface for software components to communicate with each other with a clear separation of components

Homophily:

Tendency to link to similar others

Layout:

Algorithm which calculates the position of elements in a graphic space

Raster Image:

Image encoded by a two-dimensional matrix of pixels

Shortest Path:

Minimal distance between two nodes of a network

Sparkline:

Small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolution

Subgraph:

Graph whose nodes and edges connecting these nodes are a subset of a graph

Vector Image:

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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  1. LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France

    Sébastien Heymann

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Vladimir Batagelj

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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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