NetworkX-Temporal: Building, manipulating, and analyzing dynamic graph structures

NetworkX-Temporal is a Python package that extends the popular NetworkX library to dynamic graphs, enabling the modeling and analysis of time-evolving complex systems. As core features, it provides ways to generate, slice and visualize graphs as sequences of snapshots, transform or convert between different representations and formats, and compute temporal metrics and properties. It is designed to be flexible and easily extensible, suiting a wide range of applications, and may serve as a hub for temporal graph algorithm implementations. We present its design and implementation, elaborate on its key features, and describe some use cases to illustrate its capabilities.

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SoftwareX
Published
2025-08-31
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2025.102277
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2
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Data Visualization and Analytics
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NetworkX-Temporal: Building, manipulating, and analyzing dynamic graph structures

Emanuele Carlini, Salvatore Trani, Nelson Aloysio Reis de Almeida Passos
2 citations
SoftwareX
Data Visualization and Analytics
2.55
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NetworkX-Temporal: Building, manipulating, and analyzing dynamic graph structures

Emanuele Carlini, Salvatore Trani, Nelson Aloysio Reis de Almeida Passos
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Abstract

NetworkX-Temporal is a Python package that extends the popular NetworkX library to dynamic graphs, enabling the modeling and analysis of time-evolving complex systems. As core features, it provides ways to generate, slice and visualize graphs as sequences of snapshots, transform or convert between different representations and formats, and compute temporal metrics and properties. It is designed to be flexible and easily extensible, suiting a wide range of applications, and may serve as a hub for temporal graph algorithm implementations. We present its design and implementation, elaborate on its key features, and describe some use cases to illustrate its capabilities.

SoftwareXVol. 31
University of Pisa (IT), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" (IT), National Research Council (IT)
Openalex Percentile: Top 9%
Data Visualization and Analytics
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