We covered four main topics in this chapter that will enable you to use Gephi's powerful filtering capabilities to great advantage.

In the first section we explored the purpose of filtering, explaining its benefits and why you should strive to use it for your network analysis in Gephi. We then moved on to describe many of the available filtering functions in Gephi that help you apply good filtering principles.

The last two sections were devoted to help you to apply both simple and complex filters using Gephi. Through multiple examples, we looked at some of the very simple, single filter instances before capping the chapter with some more complex examples using subfilters, intersections, and unions.

In the next chapter, Chapter 6, Graph Statistics, we'll work with many of the available statistical functions available in Gephi and learn how to apply filtering in tandem with network statistics.