ForceAtlas2 swMATH ID: 25775 Software Authors: Jacomy, M.; Venturini, T.; Heymann, S.; Bastian, M. Description: ForceAtlas2, a Continuous Graph Layout Algorithm for Handy Network Visualization Designed for the Gephi Software. Gephi is a network visualization software used in various disciplines (social network analysis, biology, genomics…). One of its key features is the ability to display the spatialization process, aiming at transforming the network into a map, and ForceAtlas2 is its default layout algorithm. The latter is developed by the Gephi team as an all-around solution to Gephi users’ typical networks (scale-free, 10 to 10,000 nodes). We present here for the first time its functioning and settings. ForceAtlas2 is a force-directed layout close to other algorithms used for network spatialization. We do not claim a theoretical advance but an attempt to integrate different techniques such as the Barnes Hut simulation, degree-dependent repulsive force, and local and global adaptive temperatures. It is designed for the Gephi user experience (it is a continuous algorithm), and we explain which constraints it implies. The algorithm benefits from much feedback and is developed in order to provide many possibilities through its settings. We lay out its complete functioning for the users who need a precise understanding of its behaviour, from the formulas to graphic illustration of the result. We propose a benchmark for our compromise between performance and quality. We also explain why we integrated its various features and discuss our design choices. Homepage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4051631/ Source Code: https://github.com/analyxcompany/ForceAtlas2 Dependencies: R Related Software: Gephi; GitHub; Supracentrality; CHAMP; GenLouvain; UMAP; t-SNE; VENLO; GraphAEL; Matlab; multimodbp; MultilayerGM; Python; MurTree; ORL; PPINN; LargeVis; GOSDT; InfoGAN; CLEVR Cited in: 12 Documents all top 5 Cited by 39 Authors 2 Mucha, Peter J. 2 Weir, William H. 1 Ai, Jun 1 Amancio, Diego R. 1 Ames, Brendan P. W. 1 Backhaus, Scott N. 1 Bombina, Polina 1 Chen, Chaofan 1 Chen, Zhi 1 Cheong, Se-Hang 1 Chertkov, Michael 1 Comin, César Henrique 1 Deka, Deepjyoti 1 Emmons, Scott 1 Gibson, Ryan M. 1 Golden, Bruce L. 1 Gou, Guanglei 1 Grudzien, Colin J. 1 Huang, Haiyang 1 Li, Yan 1 Lum, Oliver 1 Peron, Thomas K. DM. 1 Rodrigues, Francisco Aparecido 1 Rudin, Cynthia 1 Semenova, Lesia 1 Si, Yain-Whar 1 Silva, Filipi Nascimento 1 Sladek, Vladimir 1 Su, Zhan 1 Taylor, Dane 1 Thiem, Christopher 1 Walker, Benjamin J. 1 Wasil, Edward A. 1 Wong, Raymond K. W. 1 Wu, Chunxue 1 Xu, Taihua 1 Yang, Jie 1 Zdeborová, Lenka 1 Zhong, Chudi all top 5 Cited in 12 Serials 1 Physica A 1 Physics Reports 1 Information Sciences 1 Open Economies Review 1 INFORMS Journal on Computing 1 Mathematical Problems in Engineering 1 Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 1 Multiscale Modeling & Simulation 1 Algorithms 1 Statistics Surveys 1 SN Operations Research Forum 1 SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science all top 5 Cited in 8 Fields 5 Computer science (68-XX) 4 Combinatorics (05-XX) 4 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 3 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) 2 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) 1 Systems theory; control (93-XX) 1 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) Citations by Year