Gephi 0.8.2

Using Gephi for Analysing networks

Gephi 0.8.2 is a tool for analysing a network. We need to analyse networks for our project and the reason why we do this is because:

1)  We need to find out who the most important person or post is in a network2) If there's a hidden community structure, underlining pattern within the network

Today we used Gephi to analyse a facebook group of our choice. The group had to be a public group because we could not get data from closed groups. I thought the tool was easy to use with all the functions such as "modularity" functions and others to help answer the above questions. 

Image of Gephi in action - analysing network trends

This is an image from Gephi representing each post. Each dot represents a post and the bigger dots represent the most followed (viral) post.  By analysing them using the various tools on Gephi I can find out the post that has the most followers, and how many communities that each person creating the post is connected to.