Introduction

Any data store is incomplete without visualization. The same applies to Neo4j, where a powerful visualization is required to convey the content lying underneath an easily understandable form. With visualization, it is easy to understand the patterns in the data highlight clusters, connections, and discoveries of a new set of properties. In this chapter, we will primarily explore two broad categories of tools:

• Plug and Play tools: These are the tools where little or no programming is needed to visualize Neo4j. They can be made pointing to your Neo4j database, and the rest will be taken care of. They may not be as powerful as the second category but provide an excellent starting point for data scientists and machine learning people to start exploring the graph. The examples are the Neo4j console, Linkurious, and so on.

• Write your own tools using graph visualization libraries: Often readymade tools don't provide the flexibility required for custom use cases or to visualize graphs...