1. Visualizing your
Graph
Chicago Graph Database Meet-Up
Max De Marzi

2. About Me
Built the Neography Gem (Ruby
Wrapper to the Neo4j REST API)
Playing with Neo4j since 10/2009
• My Blog: http://maxdemarzi.com
• Find me on Twitter: @maxdemarzi
• Email me: maxdemarzi@gmail.com
• GitHub: http://github.com/maxdemarzi

3. Agenda
• What to visualize?
• Why visualize?
• Gephi
• Javascript Libraries
• Demos

4. WHAT TO VISUALIZE?

5. A Node

6. Nodes (one at a time)

7. Relationships

8. Directed Paths

9. Sub-Graphs

10. Clusters

11. Cliques
Purple and Red are cliques

12. Graphs

13. Multiple Graphs

14. Key Nodes

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

16. WHY VISUALIZE?

17. Science

18. Politics

19. Art
http://burak-arikan.com/

20. GEPHI

21. Gephi is “Photoshop for graphs”

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

23. Javascript Libraries
• Processing.js
• D3.js
• Sigma.js
• Three.js
• VivaGraph.js
• VVVV.js

24. Demo Time
• Walkthroughs are on maxdemarzi.com
Thanks!