Amazon QuickSight vs Gephi

Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is well suited in any organization that is making business decisions based on performance data whether it be Marketing, Sales, Call Center, etc. It is a great tool especially for mature organizations that have a lot of data to work with. Amazon QuickSight may be not as well suited for newer organizations that are just beginning to drive data/performance metrics. The data available becomes more and more valuable to more that you have.

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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Gephi

It is well suited for projects that are more discovery related. If this is a one-time project that we create a visual for, this would definitely make sense to use. If this is an ongoing analysis (monthly for example), we might look to another software that we would be able to automate a little further in how the visualization comes together

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Cory Hefner

Analytics Manager

QuaeroMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon QuickSight

7.4

Gephi

6.7

Pixel Perfect reports

10.0

4.0

Customizable dashboards

6.3

8.0

Report Formatting Templates

5.8

8.0

Amazon QuickSight

6.5

Gephi

4.3

Drill-down analysis

7.2

8.0

Formatting capabilities

6.2

2.2

Report sharing and collaboration

6.3

2.0

Integration with R or other statistical packages

—

5.0

Amazon QuickSight

5.5

Gephi

4.0

Report Versioning

8.0

2.0

Report Delivery Scheduling

3.0

—

Publish to Web

—

2.0

Publish to PDF

—

8.0

Amazon QuickSight

7.9

Gephi

6.7

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

5.8

9.0

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

10.0

3.1

Predictive Analytics

—

8.0

Amazon QuickSight

6.4

Gephi

10.0

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.1

10.0

Role-Based Security Model

6.7

—

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

6.7

—

Single Sign-On (SSO)

4.0

—

Amazon QuickSight

9.7

Gephi

—

Responsive Design for Web Access

10.0

—

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

9.5

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Pros

Amazon QuickSight is a really easy program to learn how to use.
Amazon QuickSight allows our team to customize the data using the various data sets, which makes the available reports incredibly powerful to our organization.
Our organization has the ability continually adjust our reports and build new reports as business needs change.
Even though our organization has different reports built for different departments, each department can still access and understand reports from across the company.

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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Gephi's UI, built-in layout, and built-in clustering algorithms make it very easy to get started with (assuming you have some really data and real questions you want answered).
Gephi's force atlas layout algorithm and MCL (Louvain) clustering algorithm are both very fast, which I think is crucial for a data visualization tool, because it allows you to play with your data and do intuitive analysis.
Gephi's visualization is pretty (and intuitive), which helped me sell the clustering techniques to un-initiated and non-technical managers and executives.
Gephi has a pretty large community of support, so when I learn about other clustering algorithms/visualization techniques, it often already exists in a Gephi plug-in.

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Timothy Eccleston

Associate Data Analyst

InfospaceInternet, 51-200 employees

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Cons

One of the primary challenges I've had with Amazon QuickSight so far is that some of the reports I want to build use data from different data sets. Instead of being able to put all of the information I want to see into one report.
Some of our Amazon QuickSight reports only update every 24 hours. It would be great to see that data in real-time.
I would remove the various time zones from Amazon QuickSight and only use the time zone we are in.

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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Documentation on how to use Gephi as a library is not enough.
Performance of algorithms might be improved by making use of GPU power in recent computers.

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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Research Company, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Gephi7.1

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I understand better what Gephi is for and I might start using other solutions to actually operationalize the techniques I've developed in Gephi. However, I will probably always use Gephi to experiment with new graph-based data, to make beautiful graph visualizations, or to test new graph analysis techniques. Because of its speed and ease of use, I think of it now as my scratchpad for graph visualization.

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Timothy Eccleston

Associate Data Analyst

InfospaceInternet, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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Gephi8.0

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Gephi is very intuitive and the fact that it shows its process helps the user understand what's going on. However, the animation features can really slow it down and there isn't a way to shut them off. Furthermore, the failures on saving mean you frequently have to start over. These problems disrupt the workflow and can be frustrating.

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Timothy Eccleston

Associate Data Analyst

InfospaceInternet, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

All of the other reporting platforms my organization has used previously were within our CRM and not a standalone program. In that we were very limited in being able to slice and dice the data the way that we wanted to

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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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The interactivity in Gephi and the quality of the output figures are impressive. However, the selling point was the fact that we were able to link Gephi into our pipeline using Java's interface. Other products were less customizable and lacking of the sophistication Gephi provided without too much pain during the liking process.

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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Research Company, 11-50 employees

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Amazon QuickSight5.8

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There are many members across my organization that use the QuickSight reports throughout each business day. There are various reports built for various departments as well as reports that cross over to all departments. There have not been any issues across the various departments with viewing the reports and using unique filters to look at the reports differently. Our IT department is the only department within the organization that has the necessary permissions to create new reports and/or make changes to existing reports

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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Gephi7.9

Based on 3 answers

It is not very easy to share editable data from Gephi

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Catherine Brinkley

Assistant Professor and Assistant City and Regional Planner

UC DavisHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Data Integration

Amazon QuickSight7.5

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All of the data that feeds into Amazon QuickSight comes from our CRM, Clarity. We do not have data coming in from any other sources. Some of the data that comes in is in real-time and some of the data only updates every 24 hours. Overall, the API feed of data seems to be very seamless and there have not been any hiccups in the feed.

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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Gephi8.0

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The upload process into Gephi is pretty streamlined. We upload csv files and the software is able to make the links easily and generate the graphs. The only way this could be better is if it connected directly to SAS, R, etc. or the databases themselves through SQL or a similar querying language (similar to Tableau)

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Cory Hefner

Analytics Manager

QuaeroMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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