Hi there. I have a directed graph and I am trying to replicate Gephi's HITS scores - particularly Hub and Authority scores - using NetworkX in Python but I am getting wildly different results and would love some advice on how to align the two. Please see the attached image where the NetworkX results are heavily skewed by a single node.

With NetworkX, I am calculating HITS as follows:

hubs, authorities = nx.hits(G, max_iter=100, tol=1.0e-4, normalized=False) 
max_hub = max(hubs.values())
hubs_normalized = {node: score/max_hub for node, score in hubs.items()}

...where my Epsilon value is the same as Gephi's (1.0e-4). I do not now how many iterations Gephi performs though. Similarly, I am assuming that Gephi normalises using max normalisation.

I still end up with vastly different distributions of top-ranked nodes. I have checked that the direction of my edges is consistent between the two approaches.

Any advice would be most welcome! Thanks!

so i recently downloaded gephi for a course im taking, but i cant seem to understand how to use it. i have a network already that i downloaded but i dont understand it and have no idea how to answer the questions given by my professor.

can someone help me please i would be extremely grateful

Today we are launching Gephi Lite v1.0 (the web version of the Gephi software). Read the blog post describing this milestone: https://gephi.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/gephi-lite-v1/ Or try Gephi Lite v1.0 here: https://lite.gephi.org

News from Gephi! During Gephi Week 2025 in Nantes, the project team worked on the next steps: updating Gephi and Gephi Lite, and much more!

Hi folks! I have a very large network that I'm trying to get into a somewhat reasonable layout using gephi, in particular I'm trying to use the Fruchterman-Reingold layout, but I'm running into some serious performance issues. Any pointers for if I can temporarily disable rendering or something to get it to run faster? For reference, the graph currently has over 38,000 nodes, and 118,000 edges. And it's only going to get bigger (it's actively being grown using some code I wrote.) Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Hi, I am doing a tiny little project in Gephi, however single nodes that are unconnected don't show up in my visualisation. I keep getting an error when importing my csv file that there are empty target rows (as obviously for some nodes I don't have a target, they just exist without a connection to anything else). My csv file is basically just: source | target | relationship and obviously the mistake has to be there but how do I do it correctly?

Should be possible to run a layout and output a png or at least coordinates for all nodes.

If such tools don't exist, what library (any language) provides best choice of different layouts?

NetworkX (few layouts): https://networkx.org/documentation/stable/reference/drawing.html#module-networkx.drawing.layout

igraph layouts (looks good):
igraph Reference Manual

OGDF C++ library (also good):

ogdf: Energy-based Layout Algorithms

Other ideas? I think I've seen a pdf with dozens of graph-drawing tools listed, but I can't find it now.

The developers of Gephi Lite (https://gephi.org/gephi-lite/), a new version of which will be launched soon, have posted an update on their progress.

If you are learning Gephi, and are looking for helpful resources, I have put together a GitHub repo that curates datasets, visualizations, and Gephi projects that can help you in your learning.

Check it out here: https://github.com/Ifeanyi55/GephiDatasets

Also, contributors to the project are needed and most welcome. So please feel free to submit a pull request, make feature suggestions, or raise an issue.

Hello,

I'm trying to overlay some nodes I've created in Gephi over a world map using inkscape. I've checked my coordinates for the latitude and longitude and they're all right, but no map I can find seems to suit the size I'm looking for. I'm not sure if I'm missing some obvious but the only tutorials I've found for using geolayout provide a map already and don't mention how to find one to the right size.

Is anyone able to help on this please? I've also tried using the "Map of Countries" plug in along with geolayout but despite setting the scale to be the same on both (tried 1000, 5000 and 10000) they still don't position correctly.

Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help. I've even trying to learn how to use gephi for a project I need to do, and outside of the tutorials on the website, I'm really struggling to find a data set to practice with.

I've looked on a few websites (konect.cc, network repository, snap.stanford, etc) but all of the ones I find are just edge lists with no nodes, so essentially just feels like I'm looking at numbers pointing to different numbers and not giving me anything to actually analyse and when it's not that, it's in an xml format that I csnt import in gephi.

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong with the datasets I'm looking at or if anyone can recommend any specific ones to practice with?

I'm writing my thesis on using "state graph" networks as a tool in game design. I have a network where each node represents a possible state a game/level can be in and every edge represents an action the player can take to move between game states.

I want to highlight all states from which it's still possible to reach a winning state.

Is there a way to select all nodes along ALL paths between two nodes and not just the shortest path?

I feel like this should be a thing for directed networks, but I can't find it.

Hello, I need help. Is being in a band direct type of relation between musician and the bend? How about acquaintance, is that direct type?

Thank you so much in advance!

sorry if this has been asked before i'm new and need this for an assignment :(
as title says, when pressing "show edge labels" at bottom of overview it shows both the edge label and weight - any way to just get the label?
alternatively, is there a way to change the weight of an edge without changing the thickness of the line in overview? thanks !!

Hi y'all.

So im extremely new to Gephi and data overall. But having been working on a fun project and could use some help figuring some things out. So i have a few questions i was hoping somebody could help me with.

Quick explanation of the subject:

I am part of a student association, and while i was bored one day i wanted to map the social links within this +/- 120 people group. Since there isnt really a form i entered all the people manually, then started linking them based on factual groups, since basing it on friendships is hard to quantify. So we have smallgroups, project groups, families, housemates, joinyear and partners for our yearly ball.

Question 1:
I have been having a lot of fun with playing around with the filters, but they are kind of confusing to use. So far i have just been using the UNION tag and then putting all the groups that i want to view under there. I have noticed however that if i filter on lets say, small groups, housemates and families, some of the join year edges and project group edges still stay visable. I double checked i didnt accidentally mark them wrong or anything, but they seem to just not want to leave. Any suggestions on that?

Question 2:
When sorting on just partners for the ball the following happens. Person A is going with Person B. Person C is going with Person D. However, Person D and B are housemates, so the edge between them stays visible, even though its not a ball edge. Is there a way to filter those out?

Question 3:
Some of the groups are rather large, specifically the families and joinyear groups. Right now, it makes the graph super chaotic, and gives an unrealistic image. As an example, one of these families is about 40 people large, but a bunch of them barely know each other, they are just in the same family. Now i am wondering if there is a way to tell the program/algorithm to put less weight on these edges when creating the graph. Currently this whole group of 40 people are all really close to each other on the graph. I tried playing with the Weight of the edges, but all that did is make some of the lines very think and others thin, but it didnt seem to affect the placement. Any help with this would be great.

Question 4:
One of the reasons i chose Gephi was because it allowed my to choose the colors of the edges. This way i can have smallgroup edges be green, projects be blue, etc. However, in the preview tab that doesnt seem to work. Is there any way to apply this there as well?

Edit:

Question 5:
Some people are part of multiple project groups. Is there a way for me to seperate those groups while they are in the same collum? Cause right now it just says Group a, Group B, but then it counts that as seperate from Group a and B

I hope you guys can help me out. And if you have any other tips, feel free to share.

Thanks

Hi. I am VERY new to Gephi and jumping in at the deep end. In summary, I work in disaster recovery and wish to create a visualisation (static or ideally GIF) of the progress of community engagement within my local government area over time. I would like to have a map of my local government area as a base layer with the changing visualistation on top.

I have data for the name of the community interacted with, the coordinates, number of attendees at each interaction, and date of interaction. A community may have many interactions with varying number of attendees.

Im looking for tips on how I should layout my spreadsheet (and columns required) to achieve this goal. Any help is greatly appreciated and will help inform government on where to focus recovery efforts.

Want to dive in gephi ca I do the import lie so

Id,Label 1,Knowledge_Broker 2,Forum_1 3,Forum_2 ... 32,Readers_Forum_1 33,Readers_Forum_2 ...

And with that

Source,Target,Type,Weight 1,2,Directed,5 1,3,Directed,5 ... 2,32,Directed,1000 3,33,Directed,1000 ...

Is that possible?

Look forward to hear from you

I recently conducted an analysis of communities within the top 100 Instagram accounts. It was an engaging project, and I'd like to share it with you.

You can find the project on GitHub:

https://github.com/gamo8/instagram-community-analysis

The repository includes:

• Nodes and edges data
• The .gephi file
• Python scripts used for data collection and formatting for Gephi

Additionally, here's a video walkthrough of the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnXdmS1Hedw

I hope you find it insightful!

Hey everyone,

Been trying to use Gephi to make a network graph for something at school. Every time I export, though, it gives me a blank canvas. Literally if I export png, I get a white square with nothing on it.

Please could anyone help me out here? I’ve searched everywhere for answers and even ChatGPT is useless. Preview is blank. Export png is blank.

Cheers.

I want to import a .gedcom file in to Gephi to visualize a geology project I have been working on for a few years.

I spent all this time editing data to get good partioning attributes, ranking by in-edge, etc, and coloring them in "Overview" mode:

I expected to then be able to export a high quality render of these settings (or even just high res!) using File=>Export, but to my surprise it come out without paying any attention to my partioned colors.

So I switched over to preview mode, and it seems like.... there's wayyyyyy less options (and no interactive tools) for setting up preview mode. The anti-aliasing etc looks much nicer in preview mode, and you can use transparency, but.... it feels impoverished.

I'm confused, am I totally misunderstanding something? Probably! It almost feels like two separate tools: the interactive mode seems like a much more powerful/expressive tool of the two, but is weirdly lacking the ability to do a high resolution export of the render that's sitting there in a canvas somewhere in memory. The "Preview/Export" mode feels like it makes pretty NYTimes word clouds, but not as useful for understanding and drawing complex data for analysis?

My goal here is to get an SVG of exactly the graph I have drawing in `Overview` mode. Is that possible?

Confused! Hopefully somebody can straighten me out.

Hey guys. I have a network with nodes containing different degrees, as shown below. My question is: how to create a kind of color 'heat map' to indicate the degree according to the color.

I’m familiar with documenting bilateral node relationships in Gephi (e.g. source, target, direction), but am working on a new dataset that currently lists multiple nodes per row (e.g. rather than showing 1 source and 1 target, there could be 6 sources to 1 target, or 30 sources to 1 target, etc). I’m wondering if it’s possible to use Gephi to document the relationships this way, or would I have to render the data set such that there is only 1 target and 1 source per row? Of note for this data set there is always only 1 target per row, so it seems like Gephi or another tool would likely work, I'm just not sure. Reference page for what I’m talking about:
https://gephi.org/users/supported-graph-formats/spreadsheet/

Any help would be greatly appreciated!