Strategies for Visualizing Large Graph in Neo4j Databases

Neo4j Graph Platform Visualization
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I am working on a project that involves a Neo4j graph database with thousands of nodes and relationships. However, I'm facing difficulties in visualizing the graph due to the high number of nodes and relationships. The default Neo4j Browser doesn't provide a structured visual, and the graph keeps moving, becoming messy and hard to comprehend.

I have been using the Data Explorer for Neo4j to keep the visual organized, but I'm still looking for better strategies or tools to visualize the graph more cleanly and in a structured manner. What strategies can I employ to group nodes together based on shared characteristics or properties, allowing me to focus on relevant subsets of the graph? Maybe grouping nodes together, displaying only relevant subsets at a time, and incorporating an expand or collapse feature. I tried using neo4j bloom but that doesn't give me best visual as visualizing thousands of nodes and relationships.

Thank you in advance for your assistance!

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I have zero experience with these, but maybe one or more can help.

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As you are looking for a little more structure in the visualisation and scaling in particular, I suggest our tool: SemSpect. Please see Neo4j Graph App | SemSpect
It comes as a Graph App for Neo4j Desktop but also as plugin for Neo4j server.

SemSpect aggregates nodes by their label and relationships by their type. Hope this helps.

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Thanks for the suggestions. I am actually using Data Explorer for Neo4j which works for my use case, but the challenge is if I try to show the entire graph, it becomes insignificant. One way that I am envisioning this is to focus on the critical path and display only those, but that implies that I should be aware of what paths to look for. But Data explorer is the closest solution that I was able to use.

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Thanks, I tried using SemSpect and it groups the nodes nicely, but if I need to show certain path I am not able to do so. I need to do more research on this.

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You can highlight certain paths of a node by moving the mouse over the node (provided it is in a group that shows its nodes as grey dots). These paths can also be labelled with flags: How to track relationships between nodes

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You can also try Graphlytic - https://graphlytic.com/
Critical paths can be defined as query templates and used as actions in the visualization.
There's also a short video of the main search and expand features - https://graphlytic.com/features/#exploring_01