If you’ve ever attempted to render a network graph, then you know that the fine details of colors, layout, connection strategies, and size are more art than science.  Requiring constant tweaking and an eye not only for the science but the “beauty” of the result, people frequently stop with ‘good enough’ simply out of frustration.  Not any more, thanks to a new tool called ‘Gephi’.

Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.

It looks truly amazing, earning digital urban‘s title of ‘a Photoshop for Graphs’.  Interactive refinement and editing, combined with the multitude of options and settings inside Gephi, really do lead to a powerful and beautiful tool.  See the demonstration video below.

Thanks to Kenny Gruchalla for sending this in.

via Gephi, graph exploration and manipulation software.