Chapter 3. An introduction to Gephi and KeyLines

This chapter covers

  • A comparison of two graph visualization tools
  • A short tutorial on Gephi
  • Building visualization web applications with KeyLines
  • A short tutorial on KeyLines

You have many different tools available to build graph visualizations, and selecting the right one depends on a number of different factors. Because the tools vary significantly in both their capabilities and their user interface, I selected two that I use in the examples in the rest of the book, Gephi and KeyLines. In the appendix, I discuss their capabilities and show a number of different examples using another graph visualization tool, D3. D3.js is a popular visualization library, but it’s not the focus of this ...

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