Methods for data analysis and visualization using Gephi

Protocol/Methods by Jessica McInchak
August 1, 2013

Data Driven Detroit (D3)   (Detroit)

This document contains a guide to using Gephi to process, visualize, and analyze data, and uses survey data from the Urban Innovation Exchange as a use case. Gephi is an open-source platform build for the purpose of processing, visualizing, and analyzing network data and can be downloaded for free. Below is a table of contents for the document which lays out the skills and processes that readers can hope to gain from this protocol. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.      What is Gephi?

2.      Preparing data: includes nodes and edges .csv tables

3.      Importing data

4.      Visualizing: Basics: Includes Icons, ranking, layout, filters and queries, partition, statistics, preview and export

5.      Sample visuals and network maps from UIX