Gephi: Customize the graph

In this post, you are going to learn below things.

a.   How can you customize the nodes of a graph?

b.   How can you adjust the background color of a graph?

c.    How to enable node labels?

d.   How to increase edge weight?

e.   How to increase font size?

f.     How to remove the edges?

I am going to explain advanced customizations in later posts.

How can you customize the nodes of a graph?

Below step-by-step procedure explains how can you customize the nodes of a graph.

Step 1: Open the graph into Gephi workspace.

Step 2: Select ‘Edit node attributes’ button.

Step 3: Click on any node that you want to customize.

When you click on a node, it highlights all the nodes, that are directly connected to this node and Edit window will be opened at the left side of the workspace.

You can change the properties of a node in the Edit window. For example, I updated the size as 50 and set label color to red. The graph is changed like below.

How can you adjust the background color of a graph?

Below step-by-step procedure explain how can you change the background color of a graph.

Step 1: Open the graph in Gephi workspace.

Step 2: At the left-bottom of the graph window, you can able to see bulb icon, it is used to change the background color of a graph window.

Step 3: Right click on the balloon icon.

It opens ‘Choose a Color’ window.

Select any color that you want and press OK button.

Now the graph color will be changed to the color that you selected.

How to enable node labels?

You can enable/disable (toggle) node labels using the ‘T’ button at the bottom of the graph window.

When I click on ‘T’ button, it shows the node labels.

How to increase edge weight?

At the bottom of the graph window, there is a slider to increase the edge weight of the graph.

How to increase font size?

At the bottom of the graph window, you can see a slider to increase the font size.

How to remove the edges?

You can remove the edges, by clicking on ‘Show Edges’ button.

When I clicked on ‘Show Edges’ button, the edges are removed, and the graph is rendered like below.

To display the edges on screen, re click on ‘Show Edges’ button.

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