Development status Beta Operating system | Written in Java, OpenGL | |
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Developer(s) Mathieu Bastian, Eduardo Ramos Ibañez, Mathieu Jacomy, Cezary Bartosiak, Sébastien Heymann, Julian Bilcke, Patrick McSweeney, André Panisson, Jérémy Subtil, Helder Suzuki, Martin Skurla, Antonio Patriarca Initial release 31 July 2008; 8 years ago (2008-07-31) Stable release 0.9.1 / 14 February 2016; 12 months ago (2016-02-14) | ||
Gephi is an open-source network analysis and visualization software package written in Java on the NetBeans platform.
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History
Initially developed by students of the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC) in France, Gephi has been selected for the Google Summer of Code in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Its last version, 0.9.0 has been launched in December 2015, with an update in February 2016 (0.9.1). Previous versions are 0.6.0 (2008), 0.7.0 (2010), 0.8.0 (2011), 0.8.1 (2012) and 0.8.2 (2013).
The Gephi Consortium, created in 2010, is a French non-profit corporation which supports development of future releases of Gephi. Members include SciencesPo, Linkfluence, WebAtlas, and Quid. Gephi is also supported by a large community of users, structured on a discussion group and a forum and producing numerous blogposts, papers and tutorials.
Applications
Gephi has been used in a number of research projects in academia, journalism and elsewhere, for instance in visualizing the global connectivity of New York Times content and examining Twitter network traffic during social unrest along with more traditional network analysis topics. Gephi is widely used within the digital humanities, a community where many of its developers are involved.
Gephi inspired the LinkedIn InMaps and was used for the network visualizations for Truthy.
Gephi can also import data to social networks also Facebook or Twitter and generate a graph and clusters.