# gephi/gephi

Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

Repository: https://github.com/gephi/gephi
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gephi
Homepage: http://gephi.org
Language: Java
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: graph, visualization, opengl, interactive, graph-analytics, java
Last push: 2026-08-26T12:45:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 83, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5429, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 116, "gap_med": 6, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6622, forks 1612 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:45.757334+00:00)

## What it is
Gephi is an open-source desktop application for interactive visualization and analysis of large graphs and networks, built on Java and the Apache NetBeans Platform with an OpenGL rendering engine. It supports networks up to millions of elements with real-time layout, filtering, metrics, and extensible plugin architecture.

## Use cases
- visualize a social network from a CSV of edges
- run community detection and centrality metrics on a large graph
- explore a network of up to a million nodes interactively
- export publication-ready network maps as PNG, PDF, or SVG
- analyze citation or biological networks
- convert spreadsheet data into a network for exploration

## When to choose
- you need an interactive desktop tool for large-scale network visualization
- you want built-in graph algorithms like Force Atlas 2 layout, modularity clustering, and centrality
- you need publication-quality network figures
- you want a plugin-extensible graph analysis platform

## When to avoid
- you only need a quick browser-based look at small networks (use Gephi Lite instead)
- you need programmatic graph computation in a library rather than a GUI
- you cannot install desktop applications
- your data is not graph/network structured

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: data-visualization, graphics, gui
- domain: data-visualization, data-science, analytics, social-media
- platform: windows, jvm
- tags: graph-visualization, network-analysis, sna, opengl, netbeans-platform, gexf, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- gephi/gephi (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.757334+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:43:17.724105+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gephi/gephi (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.757334+00:00, sha 53fc755f4ff7)
  - homepage: http://gephi.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:44.484642+00:00, sha ef5d555a67d7)
  - site_page: https://gephi.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:44.487457+00:00, sha 8e0194287d1c)
  - site_page: https://gephi.org/quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:44.489435+00:00, sha 84f4f60433e1)
  - site_page: https://docs.gephi.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:44.494043+00:00, sha 82c406e7218c)
  - site_page: https://gephi.org/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:44.491717+00:00, sha 7419292e8e3e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.