Mastering Gephi Network Visualization

Overviewing Gephi

Before moving into a discussion of the components of the Gephi interface, it will be helpful to provide you with a more holistic view for you to understand Gephi. Many of you might already be quite familiar with the general philosophy behind Gephi and how it is laid out. If so, feel free to skip ahead. For everyone else, let's step back for a moment and take a view at the big picture. You might think of this as viewing the entire building before visiting each of the individual rooms.

If we carry our building analogy a step further, Gephi has three primary sections, surrounded by a host of smaller rooms. The three main sections are as follows:

• The data laboratory: This houses all of our original data, plus additional calculated ...