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Gephi Cookbook

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Gephi Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Gephi Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Applying individual filters on a graph


Very often, anyone studying a graph is interested in certain parts of it and doesn't need to look at the entire graph, and that is where we need a way of filtering out required portions of the graph. Gephi has a wide set of filters, based on which specific parts of a graph can be filtered out and then studied in detail. For example, one might filter out nodes based on modularity and then run statistics such as degree, PageRank, and so on, one after the other. In this recipe, we will learn about some of these filters and how to use them on graphs.

How to do it…

To filter out selected portions of a graph based on certain pre-specified criteria, follow these steps:

  1. Load the Les Misérables network in Gephi.

  2. In the Filters panel located on the right-side of the Gephi application window next to the Statistics panel, you will see a library of filters categorized into buckets based on which part of the graph the filter is going to be applied to:

  3. Expand one of the...