nshadov / visual-forensic-analysis

Set of helpers to visualize relations between events over time with Gephi

visual-forensic-analysis

Set of helpers to visualize relations between events over time.

Main workhorse used is Gephi - leading visualization and exploration software. Gephi expects graphs and that's not always thing you carry around with yourself (in contrast to CSV, JSON, etc). Those helpers would help you to leverage Gephi nonetheless to understand relations and explain sequence of events to someone.

Requirements

• https://gephi.org/
• Python 2.7
• Data you would like to visualize in CSV format

How To Use

1. Prepare your data in CSV format

2. Update script parse your dataset and make it meaningful for you

3. Build graph from CSV data

4. Import data to Gephi

5. Create static visualization from you graph

6. Create playable timeline of events