Slides of the ICWSM Gephi tutorial

Sébastien Heymann and Julian Bilcke gave yesterday the official Gephi tutorial at the ICWSM conference, in Barcelona. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. This is also a special conference for us because we introduced Gephi for the first time 2 years ago, at the 3rd ICWSM conference.

Thought the tutorial was not recorded, you’ll find here the slides of the tutorial.

SP1: Exploratory Network Analysis with Gephi

This month about 80 people were trained to Gephi thanks to the fundings we receive at our non-profit organization, the Gephi Consortium: 40 people at ICWSM, but also 20 people at UKSNA and 20 people at the French Complex System summer school. We will have our next talk at ECCS, the European Conference on Complex Systems. Looking forward to see you there!

Gephi Tutorials at UKSNA and ICWSM 2011

We are very excited to announce that the Gephi Team has a tutorial session at both UKSNA and ICWSM conferences this summer!

UKSNA will be located at the University of Greenwich, London. The Gephi Short Course is on Wednesday, 6 July (2:30 – 6:30PM).
The UK Social Networks Conference offers an interdisciplinary venue for social and behavioral scientists, sociologists, educationalists, political scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, practitioners and others to present their work in the area of social networks. The primary objective of the conference is to facilitate interactions between the many different disciplines interested in network analysis.
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ICWSM Tutorial Day will be held July 17, 2011 (1:00 – 4:00 PM) in Barcelona, Spain.
The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations.
website | registration | Facebook event

Registration to these events is still open! The tutorial at ICWSM costs $150 ($100 for students). The tutorial at UKSNA costs £100 (£50 for students).

Program:

In these tutorials, Sébastien Heymann and Julian Bilcke will provide a hands-on demonstration of the essential functionalities of Gephi, based on a real case scenario. The participants will be guided step by step through the complete chain of representation, manipulation, layout, analysis and aesthetics refinements. Particular focus will be put on filters and metrics for the creation of their first visualizations. They will be incited to compare the hypotheses suggested by their own explorations. They finally will walk away with the practical knowledge enabling them to use Gephi for their own projects. The tutorial is intended for professionals, researchers and graduates who wish to learn how playing during a network exploration can speed up their studies.

Requirements:

Participants should come with their own laptop (and a mouse!) with Gephi installed. After the guided introduction, they will have time to work on a dataset of their own and receive help and direct feedback from the teaching team.

It is also a great opportunity to meet researchers and practitioners interested in network visualization, looking forward speaking with you all there!

Back from ICWSM

We are just back from California where we presented a demo paper at ICWSM’09 conference.

I was impressed at many levels, especially how professional where presentations. More than 47% of papers where done by students, I think this is great. The poster and demo session was highly appreciated by everyone and I think showed the diversity and creativity of students. Pr Jon Kleinberg’s talk was very impressive, notably by its clarity. Network structure and diffusion in one of the topic we like to follow and read about here. We also highly appreciate Pr Watts’s presence for his experience

Experts will be more likely to drive conclusions and highlights about the conference than me. Note that the KDD’09 (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference) in Paris sounds very interesting as well, with connate topics.

Demo was a success, as we received many audience and comments. We tied numerous links to the network and social media research community. As Gephi is open-source, needless to say we count on international support and collaboration to build a better tool. Effort is made to be compatible with other file format but more must be done to help users to work with network data more easily. I think we are doing well, as 0.7 version will be based on a modular framework.

Well, very positive. Rendezvous next year.