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 possibilities to work with complex data sets and produce valuable visual results.

Gephi will officially be presented at the 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) conference (website).

Tags : network, network science, infoviz, visualization, graph, graph theory, complex network, software, open source, science

About network visualization : Network Science is a new and emerging scientific discipline that examines the interconnections among diverse physical, informational, biological, cognitive, and social networks. This field of science seeks to discover common principles, algorithms and tools that govern network behavior. The National Research Council defines Network Science as "the organized knowledge of networks based on their study using the scientific method." In this context, network visualization brings a complementary way to statistical analysis to discover, extract and classify new patterns in network structure and data.

Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_science
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Why is Gephi cool ?

• Because you can make, see and print that things : http://www.flickr.com/photos/gephi/
• Because we want to set networks in the hands of the most, as a tool for understanding the world and revealing its organization.
• Because we don't like complicated scientific software and build a WYSIWYG user-centric editor.
• Because we are French ;-)