Visualizing your Graph

Chicago Graph Database Meet-UpMax De Marzi

About Me

• My Blog: http://maxdemarzi.com• Find me on Twitter: @maxdemarzi• Email me: maxdemarzi@gmail.com• GitHub: http://github.com/maxdemarzi

Built the Neography Gem (Ruby Wrapper to the Neo4j REST API)Playing with Neo4j since 10/2009

Agenda

• What to visualize?• Why visualize?• Gephi• Javascript Libraries• Demos

WHAT TO VISUALIZE?

A Node

Nodes (one at a time)

Relationships

Directed Paths

Sub-Graphs

Clusters

Cliques

Purple and Red are cliques

Graphs

Multiple Graphs

Key Nodes

Properties

Relationship weight of A to B is higher than A to D, and B to D.

WHY VISUALIZE?

Science

Politics

Art

http://burak-arikan.com/

GEPHI

Gephi is “Photoshop for graphs”

http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2012/06/21/visualising-a-neo4j-graph-using-gephi/

Javascript Libraries

• Processing.js• D3.js• Sigma.js • Three.js• VivaGraph.js• VVVV.js

Demo Time

• Walkthroughs are on maxdemarzi.com

Thanks!