Meet the Gephi color palette and make beautiful visualizations

By Dr. Verónica Espinoza, 2023

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Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.

¿What is Gephi?

Gephi is a tool for data analysts and scientists keen to explore and understand graphs. Like Photoshop™ but for graph data, the user interacts with the representation, manipulate the structures, shapes and colors to reveal hidden patterns. The goal is to help data analysts to make hypothesis, intuitively discover patterns, isolate structure singularities or faults during data sourcing. It is a complementary tool to traditional statistics, as visual thinking with interactive interfaces is now recognized to facilitate reasoning. This is a software for Exploratory Data Analysis, a paradigm appeared in the Visual Analytics field of research [1.2].

Beautiful color palette.

Where do I find the color palette for Gephi?

Gephi offers a wonderful color palette and you can find it in the “appearance” section as shown in the image.

Figure 1. The path to choose the color palette in Gephi is shown.

When you click the “Generate” button, a window will be displayed with different options shown in the following image.
Here, you can limit the number of colors generated (if required) and select one of the color palettes, as shown.

Figure 2. The window to generate color palettes in Gephi is displayed.

Below, I show you a poster that I made about the different color palettes that Gephi offers.

Figure 3. Poster about the color palette offered by Gephi (Prepared by the author)

Final comments

As you can see, Gephi is a powerful tool with which you can create amazing things. The color palette offered by Gephi allows you to generate attractive visualizations for your research projects. Enjoy it!

Do you want to learn more about Gephi?

Read this story I wrote where you will find interesting resources about this tool.

I also share other tutorials that I have written about Gephi:

1. How to publish your Gephi network to the web.
2. Link Prediction Plugin for Gephi.
3. Position Ranking Plugin for Gephi,
4. How to visualize a Spotify Network in Gephi in just a few steps!
5. How to use Network Splitter 3D plugin for Gephi
6. Groups by Partition Plugin for Gephi: “Each node is the aggregation of a group of nodes”

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RESOURCES

📥Download Gephi here

🎓My Gephi story on Medium

REFERENCES

1.-Bastian M., Heymann S., Jacomy M. (2009). Gephi: an open source software for exploring and manipulating networks. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

2.- Gephi — The Open Graph Viz Platform [Internet]. [cited Feb 9, 2023]. Available in: https://gephi.org/