The interactivity in Gephi and the quality of the output figures are impressive. However, the selling point was the fact that we were able to link Gephi into our pipeline using Java's interface. Other products were less customizable and lacking of the sophistication Gephi …
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Analytics Manager in Marketing at Quaero (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Chose Gephi
Compared to vis.js and d3, Gephi has a much better UI and is easier to use for anyone without a strong code background. vis.js and d3 are more flexible in terms of output and are used by Quaero for more of the ongoing reporting where Gephi is used for exploratory analysis and …
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Sr. Software Engineer & Data Architect in Information Technology at New England Biolabs (Biotechnology, 201-500 employees)
Chose Gephi
There are tools out there that can probably handle much larger datasets, however. Gephi's strength is in its ease-of-use and out-of-the box readiness. Again, there's literally no code writing required to do some pretty powerful things. Being able to open the product and get to …
Statistical & Reporting Analyst in Research & Development at Connolly, LLC (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Gephi
Gephi is better than NodeXL. More robust and user-friendly, more options for adjusting visualizations. However, Excel is more convenient for most business analyst users and supported in most environments.
Associate Data Analyst in Research & Development at Infospace (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Chose Gephi
R is probably stronger from a statistics, mechanics, and customization stand-point, and has some plug-ins for graph visualization, but it can still be a bit of a black box, whereas Gephi is built around graph visualization, allowing you to really play with the data, even …
SQA Engineer in Social Media at National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gephi
I have used RStudio and Rattle for Data Analytics and although RStudio is more powerful for cleaning and mining large sets of data, Rattle is not that efficient in graph visualization where Gephi comes out as a winner.
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Features
Gephi
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Gephi
Feature
Gephi
6.7
3 Ratings
20% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports
4.01 Ratings
Customizable dashboards
8.02 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates
8.03 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Gephi
Feature
Gephi
4.3
3 Ratings
61% below category average
Drill-down analysis
8.02 Ratings
Formatting capabilities
2.23 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages
5.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration
2.01 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Gephi
Feature
Gephi
4.0
3 Ratings
70% below category average
Publish to Web
2.01 Ratings
Publish to PDF
8.02 Ratings
Report Versioning
2.01 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Gephi
It is well suited for projects that are more discovery related. If this is a one-time project that we create a visual for, this would definitely make sense to use. If this is an ongoing analysis (monthly for example), we might look to another software that we would be able to automate a little further in how the visualization comes together
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In comparison to other tools such as GraphWiz or Circos, Gephi comes with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that makes it easy to load your data, and quickly start building all sorts of different graphs. There's absolutely no code that needs to be written for either loading or modeling. And without downloading additional plug-ins, Gephi ships with quite a few standard graph models, as well as some "fun" extras such as the Sierpinski triangle, and a variety of force atlas types.
Most of the layout types (maybe all) are highly configurable, which can make for extremely customized and unique displays of your data. Again, none of this requires the user to write any code. That said, it is possible to script custom functionality for your models, or even update the Java source code yourself, if you feel like getting technical. Gephi builds are available on GitHub, and the developers encourage people to contribute ideas, improvements, and plug-ins.
There's a plug-in for Gephi that allows for streaming data to update your model. This essentially allows you to create near realtime graphs of your data in motion. This plug-in was by far the biggest reaston we invested time in the product; to create animated data visualizations without exhaustive hours in development.
I (and many others) have had to expand Gephi's memory manually by experimenting with the configuration file. I'm glad it's possible, but it should be easier.
Gephi sometimes crashes inexplicably and loses your work, so I have developed a habit of explicitly exporting versions of my graphs as csv's, but I think this should be handled automatically in Gephi.
Because it is prone to crash, ideally, Gephi would help the user manage his/her use, by estimating processing and memory for very large tasks and prompting the user to confirm their requests before executing. Instead, I just tend to avoid certain functions.
While Gephi isn't perfect, it's a powerful tool for mathematical graph modelling that's hard to find in other products, particularly by way of its interface. It grants non-software developers access to a point-and-click way of creating accurate, beautiful visualizations that would normally take hours in other applications. The fact that it allows for live streaming data is also something that's hard to come by, at least for visualization software
Gephi is very intuitive and the fact that it shows its process helps the user understand what's going on. However, the animation features can really slow it down and there isn't a way to shut them off. Furthermore, the failures on saving mean you frequently have to start over. These problems disrupt the workflow and can be frustrating.
The interactivity in Gephi and the quality of the output figures are impressive. However, the selling point was the fact that we were able to link Gephi into our pipeline using Java's interface. Other products were less customizable and lacking of the sophistication Gephi provided without too much pain during the liking process.
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I have only used the product for education purposes. I will not be the best person to provide details about ROI and business efficiency and customer service. I was personally very excited about the tool and am continuing my work on the tool.
