Presentation given at Government Graph Day DC on March 5, 2020

1. Introducing Neo4j Bloom
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For
Date
Illustrating Connected Data using
VisualizationsGovernment Graph Day

2. Confidential - Neo4j, Inc.
Business Domain
Graph Apps
Ad-hoc Graph
Exploration
Classes of Neo4j Visualization Needs
Custom Visualization
Apps
BI Dashboards,
Reports and Charts
Sophisticated
Enterprise
Workflows
Self-guided, Low Curation Highly Guided & Curated
Small User Scale Large User Scale
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Visualization Options with Neo4j
Neo4j Bloom
Focused on ad-hoc graph exploration needs
Developer using Neo4j for hobby or personal prototype
Developer looking to get a project approved
First POC / Prototype (developer/analyst involvement)
Initial development (e.g. Discovery bundle)
Ad-hoc visualization by small data science team (no specific viz
requirements)
Linkurious Enterprise
Purpose-built applications for specific domains and
graph visualization needs
Custom Build
Custom app development or visualization embedding
needs such as apps for end-to-end workflows, dashboard
integration or combining data sources
Options abound e.g. Linkurious Ogma, Neo4j BI Connector
(upcoming), D3.js and other open-source libraries
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4. Neo4j Bloom

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Perspective
Search
Visualize
Explore
Inspect
Edit
Explore & Collaborate
with Neo4j Bloom
Explore Graphs Visually
Prototype Concepts Faster
Collaborate Across Teams

6. Graph Perspectives
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Manage visibility and reduce clutter,
revealing the right information to the
right users.
• Categorize raw entities
• Selective relationships
• Selective property visibility
• Hide uncategorized data
• Role-based perspective sharing

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Northwind Graph
Bloom Perspective Example

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Northwind Sales Perspective
Bloom Perspective Example

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Northwind Customer Perspective
Bloom Perspective Example

10. Graph Search
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Ask Bloom what you’re looking for
using idiomatic phrases based on the
graph structure and content.
• Search everywhere
• Find graph patterns
• Create search phrases

11. Neo4j Bloom’s Intuitive User Interface
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Search with type-ahead
suggestions
Flexible Color, Size and
Icon schemes
Visualize, Explore and
Discover
Pan, Zoom and Select
Property Browser and
editor

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Bloom 1.2 - Enhanced Exploration
Flexible colors and sizes Style using properties
Expand by relationship or
neighbor type
• More useful graph visualizations with more and more customizable information
• Easy to differentiate influential nodes, relationships and find neighbors
• Better clarity while traversing with user controlled path expansion

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Bloom 1.2 - Better Collaboration
• Easier to find nodes by name/other properties, so you don’t need explicit detail to use
• Easier for Devs to set up Cypher queries for frequent use by business colleagues
• Extract results to different formats and share with other people or use in another
application
Case insensitive search Specify parameter types Export csv data

14. Bloom Demo

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Advantages of using Neo4j Bloom
Business
IT Mgmt
Developers
Analysts
Data Scientists
● Rapid Neo4j prototyping
● Graph visualization that’s simple to get started
● Easy to demo concepts to analysts & IT managers
● Ad-hoc exploration and discovery
● Low dependency on others
● Easy point-and-click option
● Easy to explain results to other teams/business
● Business perspective of data
● Off-the-shelf visualization
● Better collaboration among teams
● Some self-service data exploration

16. Try Bloom with Neo4j Enterprise Edition
Neo4j Sandbox - a Neo4j interactive experience
● Limited time cloud instance
● Bloom enabled
● Links to Bloom videos and docs
● Explore our fraud demo dataset
https://neo4j.com/bloom/
Neo4j Desktop - a Neo4j developer’s toolchest
● Install on your local machine
● Includes developer license for Neo4j Enterprise Edition
● Activate Bloom with a trial key from your Neo4j rep
● Connect to any local or remote database
https://neo4j.com/download/
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17. Get Bloom with the Startup Program
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https://neo4j.com/startup-program/

18. Linkurious Demo

19. Questions
Anurag Tandon anurag.tandon@neo4j.com
Gary Mann gary.mann@neo4j.com