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Gephi Tutorials at UKSNA and ICWSM 2011

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We are very excited to announce that the Gephi Team has a tutorial session at both UKSNA and ICWSM conferences this summer!

UKSNA will be located at the University of Greenwich, London. The Gephi Short Course is on Wednesday, 6 July (2:30 – 6:30PM).
The UK Social Networks Conference offers an interdisciplinary venue for social and behavioral scientists, sociologists, educationalists, political scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, practitioners and others to present their work in the area of social networks. The primary objective of the conference is to facilitate interactions between the many different disciplines interested in network analysis.
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ICWSM Tutorial Day will be held July 17, 2011 (1:00 – 4:00 PM) in Barcelona, Spain.
The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations.
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Registration to these events is still open! The tutorial at ICWSM costs $150 ($100 for students). The tutorial at UKSNA costs Β£100 (Β£50 for students).

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Program:

In these tutorials, SΓ©bastien Heymann and Julian Bilcke will provide a hands-on demonstration of the essential functionalities of Gephi, based on a real case scenario. The participants will be guided step by step through the complete chain of representation, manipulation, layout, analysis and aesthetics refinements. Particular focus will be put on filters and metrics for the creation of their first visualizations. They will be incited to compare the hypotheses suggested by their own explorations. They finally will walk away with the practical knowledge enabling them to use Gephi for their own projects. The tutorial is intended for professionals, researchers and graduates who wish to learn how playing during a network exploration can speed up their studies.

Requirements:

Participants should come with their own laptop (and a mouse!) with Gephi installed. After the guided introduction, they will have time to work on a dataset of their own and receive help and direct feedback from the teaching team.

It is also a great opportunity to meet researchers and practitioners interested in network visualization, looking forward speaking with you all there!

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First Gephi meetup in SF Bay Area

ImageThis is an announcement for the first Gephi User Group meetup in San Francisco Bay Area! The area has many active Gephi users and supporters and we are looking forward making regular meetups, to create connections and discuss features and projects. The group is also open to students interested in open-source or data visualization.

The first event is planned for Thursday May 12 in San Francisco. The ambiance will be informal and relaxed, to facilitate contacts and discussions.

Gephi can be used in many domains and with different types of data. Whether you are a scientist, a student, an artist, a developer or a simple enthusiast, you are welcome to join the community and show up at our meetup. It’s a great opportunity to ask questions, discuss data, plugins, code, metrics or visualization.

The meetup will be organized by Mathieu Bastian, Gephi co-founder. To register, sign-in on meetup.com and RSVP for the event.

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Gephi maps exhibited at the International Design Biennale

affiche_last2-187x300 The Saint Γ‰tienne International Design Biennial, holding from 20 November to 5 December, is a unique event in the domain of design, due to the exhibitions shown as well as the diversity of its attendees. The Biennial democratizes design and makes it accessible to all kinds of audiences, proving that this creative discipline can take many forms, and is often driven by human aspects, including its uses by humans.

Image The theme of the 2010 biennial is around teleportation. It intends to explore paths of discoveries that will tend in their extreme expression to lead to a possible teleportation as the dematerialization of movement which appears to be an incredibly revealing notion of our era.

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Sebastien Heymann will exhibit maps of designers’ conceptual world, placed at the center of the “PrΓ©diction” exhibition. Made in collaboration with Benjamin LoyautΓ©, curator of the event, these inscriptions are a proposal to reveal the state of knowledge sharing in Design today.

Useful information on how to come here.

 

You may contact Sebastien by email to appoint a meeting during the first weekend.

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EDIT: photos are available on the Facebook page of Gephi.

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Gephi wins Duke’s Choice Award 2010

ImageThe Duke’s Choice Awards recognize and honor extreme innovation in the world of Java technology, and are granted to the most innovative uses of the Java platform. Because the primary judging criteria is innovation, the awards put even small developer shops on an equal footing with multinational giants. The winners are selected by Oracle’s Java technology leadership team.

Congratulations to all Gephi contributors! Thank you to the Oracle’s Java Team to make Gephi a Duke’s Choice and the technology that have enabled us to build Gephi and Gephi Toolkit.

The winners will be featured at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, September 19-23rd. Gephi’s Software Architect, Mathieu Bastian will be present there to receive the award, and attend the conference!

Java provides all the components and development tools to develop large data-intensive open-source applications. Gephi is built on top of the Netbeans Platform, and profit from its module and window systems. The platform allows us to propose solutions to reuse and extend features, in terms of plug-ins, and let developers create new data wrappers, algorithms or filters easily. The rendering engine is built with JOGL (Java OpenGL) and gives responsiveness and interactivity, thanks to hardware acceleration. We use a large number of Java libraries. I would like to use the occasion to offer thanks to all contributors of these projects.

A new video that features Gephi in five minutes:

Introducing Gephi at JavaOne from gephi on Vimeo.

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Meet Gephi at 30th Sunbelt Conference, June 29 to July 04

ImageWe are very excited to annouce the Gephi Team is attending the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, located in Riva del Garda, Italy from June 29 to July 04. We present a poster and will provide software demonstration on Friday, 2 during Poster Session (12:30-13:30)

The Sunbelt conference is the hugest event in the area of Social Network and we are honored to present our project there. More than 700 abstracts are to be presented there, by social scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, ethnologists, and more… The program is very rich and interdisciplinary and will for sure fulfill our curiosity.

It’s also the best opportunity to meet researchers and practitioners interested in network visualization, looking forward speaking with you all there!

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Gephi at Eurovis 2010, Bordeaux

ImageThe Gephi Team presents a poster for the Eurovis 2010 conference, June 9-11, located in Bordeaux, France.

ImageEuroVis 2010 is the 12th annual Visualization Symposium jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee.

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The poster will be presented by Sebastien Heymann and Mathieu Jacomy on site during the poster session. They will also provide live demo.

It is a great opportunity to present some of the visualization features available in Gephi and discuss with the research community about the project and network visualization in general.

The poster concentrates on the visualization topic and a general project presentation. It describes the visualization architecture built for the OpenGL and Preview engine.

Abstract

Using Computer Games Techniques for Improving Graph Viz Efficiency

Gephi is a modular and extensible open-source network visualization platform. It follows a pragmatic approach for visualization by using two different engines for two different purposes. Large scale graph drawing requires performance and interactivity, but also customization and implementation flexibility. We observed that fulfilling all aspects in a single rendering engine is technically not viable on a long-term view and propose to use different technologies. Gephi project aims to create a sustainable software and technical ecosystem, driven by a large international open-source community, who shares common interests in networks and complex systems. It focuses on visualization and manipulation, simplicity and extensibility.

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Seminar at LIP6 Paris – March 25

ImageI was kindly invited by the complex networks team at LIP6 to present Gephi 0.7 version during their monthly seminar.

The seminar will take place next week, on the 25th of March at LIP6 in Paris. More information here (in French). Entrance is free.

Abstract:

In this practical talk, I will present 0.7 version of Gephi, open-source graph visualization & manipulation software. Gephi possesses a complete set of network visualization and analysis features, proposes major innovations in dynamic and hierarchical graphs and above all is a flexible and extensible architecture for plugins. I will firstly sum up embedded features: Layout, Metrics, Ranking, Filters, Partition, Preview, Clustering, DataLab. Then, I will present and discuss dynamic and hierarchical graphs features and roadmaps while showing live demo. Afterwards, I will outline our approach by presenting the Gephi project, some insights about performance and the various possibilities of using and extending Gephi in the way scientists and engineers can rely on. To conclude I will speak about plugin development and show how to create a plugin in five minutes.

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Gephi 0.7alpha2 released

ImageGephi 0.7 alpha2 was just released. It increases stability and fix issues that were reported on our forum and bug tracker. Thanks for your valuable feedbacks!

Normally, for minor versions like those, Gephi updates itself by asking users to update when Gephi starts. This AutoUpdate feature was not yet available for 0.7alpha but is working now. Therefore users need to download this new 0.7alpha2 version to profit for upcoming updates through the plugin center.

Check releases notes and download latest version. Please uninstall previous versions first before installing it.

One can find many network and graph datasets on this wiki page.

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Try Gephi 0.7

ImageBefore any further announcement about the new 0.7 version, welcome to new Gephi website, an outstanding improvement for the community. The new version 0.7alpha has been uploaded on our server today at midnight. You can download it and start playing with it now.

We would be grateful if you could send us as many feedbacks as possible, about features, bugs and usability.

To start spread Gephi, you can already visit this page. However more materials will come soon, like a feature-madness video and more screenshots.

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Gephi 0.7 is coming…

screenshot_960Howdy! The Gephi Team is proud to announce that the new Gephi 0.7 alpha version will be release very very soon! This will lead to a complete shift for the community, making Gephi the network visualization and manipulation software we dreamed 3 years ago, when the project started at WebAtlas NGO in France.

During the next weeks, we’ll publish a serie of blog posts to tell you more about the project history and the evolutions brought by the next release (one clue: we built it on NetBeans Platform…). Stay connected with us on Twitter and Facebook. πŸ™‚

Go to this page to view the detailed screenshot and register to be notified by email:

Gephi 0.7 countdown