Leading the development of Gephi,

an Exploratory Networks Analysis framework

The Mission

We, Gephi Team, INIST-CNRS, Linkfluence and WebAtlas, invite others to join

us on our mission to advance the development of Gephi, a platform for

relational data visualization and analysis, through the formation of the Gephi

Consortium.

We are interested to hear from companies, research laboratories and We are interested to hear from companies, research laboratories and

individuals who share our core goals:

• to build generic and reusable parts of Gephi,

• to improve the technology at low cost,

• and to create standards to ensure interoperability.

Why a Consortium?

What have research laboratories, big data companies and human societies in

common? The recurrent need to map and understand complex

phenomenons, revealing patterns and trends in relational data. Called “Data

Science”, this activity helps to turn data into products and to perform

researches on the data deluge.

But an efficient technology is mandatory to store, compute and visualize

evolving data at scale.

The Gephi project aims to provide a tool to visualize, filter and interact with

every kind of relational data in real time. A generic infrastructure and long-

term vision are the keys to overcome these challenges. The Consortium is a

solution to foster the evolution and exploitation of the Gephi project.

A Pragmatic Vision

The ability to take data -- to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract

value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it -- is already at work.

Google, Amazon, Facebook, and LinkedIn have all tapped into their

datastreams and made that the core of their success. Archeologists are more

concerned now by mining information than doing fieldwork. Citizen concerned now by mining information than doing fieldwork. Citizen

organizations track interlocking directorates, while the Worldbank, US and UK

governments follow the Open Data movement. Elsevier and Thomson-Reuters

open their APIs to build high-value applications for information science.

Data visualization and analysis is the cornerstone of this evolution, and Gephi

can help in this task.

What is the Consortium?

A not-for-profit corporation under the French law of

July 1st, 1901 – equivalent of US 501(c)(3).

• Give the community a legal structure• Give the community a legal structure

• Provide a research infrastructure

• Propose legal solutions to use Gephi in business

Purpose:

R&D effort to build generic and reusable parts of Gephi

Activities

• Concentrate collective efforts and apply for fundings

• Provide leadership in developments (roadmaps,

mentoring, support)

• Organize and support the community• Organize and support the community

Cost and Involvment

Strategic

Membership

Corporate Membership Individual

Membership

Fees €10,000

3-year commitment

€3,000

1-year commitment

€45

Board of 1 seat by right As many representatives 1 representativeBoard of

Directors

1 seat by right As many representatives

as Strategic Members

1 representative

• Members elect the Management Committee

• Members vote for projects to support

• Members define expenses priorities

Benefits

• Strategic directions made according to the common

needs of members

• Personalized business made possible

• Competitive technology improved at low cost• Competitive technology improved at low cost

• Technology risk reduced by creating standards

• Connections with skilled developers and talented

researchers

• Open innovation

« Like Photoshop™ for graphs. »

Helps data analysts to reveal patterns and trends, highlight outliers and tells story with their data.

• Gephi is a network visualisation platform

Gephi in a Nutshell

• Gephi is a network visualisation platform

• Open-source, supported by a community

• Built for performance and usability

• Extensible, add plug-ins

• Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Gephi Key Figures

2,000,000$ development cost – COCOMO evaluation

150,000 lines of code

33,000 software downloads

From 2008 to 2010:

33,000 software downloads

20 contributors

8 contributor countries

3 UI languages: English, French and Spanish

600,000 pages viewed/year on gephi.org

Gephi Applications

• Social Network Analysis

• Semantic Web

• Visual Analytics

• Web mapping• Web mapping

• Infrastructure monitoring

• Business networks study

• Molecular and gene interaction research

• …

Supported by

More information

http://consortium.gephi.org