Presentation from GraphTour New York 2019 held October 16 - Illustrating the Value in your Connected Data Using Neo4j Bloom, Anurag Tandon, Neo4j

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GraphTour New York City
Visualizing data
using Neo4j Bloom

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Neo4j: Enabling the Connected Enterprise
Consumers of Connected Data
AI & Graph Analytics
• Sentiment analysis
• Customer
segmentation
• Machine learning
• Cognitive computing
• Community detection
Transactional Graphs
• Fraud detection
• Real-time recommendations
• Network and IT operations
management
• Knowledge Graphs
• Master Data Management
Discovery & Visualization
• Fraud detection
• Network and IT
operations
• Product information
management
• Risk and portfolio analysisData
Scientists
Business
Users
Applications
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Visualizing Graphs with Neo4j
Neo4j Bloom
Provided by Neo4j
Exclusively optimized for Neo4j
graphs
Deploys easily with Neo4j
components
Focused on graph exploration
thru a code-free UI
Near natural language search
Caters to business users and
graph data analysts
Small team or departmental use
Viz Toolkits
3rd party e.g. Ogma, Keylines,
yFiles, vis.js, d3.js
Some offer data hooks into Neo4j,
others may require custom
integration
Offer robust APIs for flexible
control of the viz output
Cater to developers who will
create a custom solution or app,
usually with some guardrails
Departmental, enterprise or public
use
BI Tools
3rd party e.g. Tableau, Power BI,
Qlik
Not optimized for graph data,
may require a special connector
UI for dashboard and report
creation with many kinds of viz, in
addition to graph viz
Cater to business users and data
analysts
Departmental, cross- department
or enterprise use
Graph Viz Solutions
3rd party e.g. Linkurious, Tom
Sawyer, Graphistry
Support multiple graph
models and sources
Feature UI for exploration or
APIs for customizing output
and embedding/publishing
Solutions may cater to
business users, analysts or
developers
Small team, departmental or
cross-department use
Little technical expertise Most technically involved
Smaller deployments Larger deployments
Exploration focused Publishing / Consumption focused

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Perspective
Search
Visualization
Exploration
Inspection
Editing
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Business view of the graph
Departmental views • Hiding PII • Styling
Near-natural Language Search
Full-text search • Graph patterns
• Custom Search Phrases
GPU Accelerated Visualization
High performance
physics & rendering
Direct graph interactions
Select, expand, dismiss, find paths
Node + Relationship details
Browse from neighbor to neighbor
Create, Connect, Update
Code-free graph changes
Neo4j Bloom
Overview

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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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Financial Services Customer Graph
Bloom Perspective Example

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Customer Marketing Perspective
Bloom Perspective Example

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Transaction Analyst Perspective
Bloom Perspective Example

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Bank Division Perspective
Bloom Perspective Example

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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

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Neo4j Bloom User Interface
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Search with type-ahead
suggestions
Category icons and color
scheme
Visualize, Explore and
Discover
Pan, Zoom and Select
Property Browser and
editor

12. Bloom Demo
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Integrations
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• Link into Bloom from another
application
• Pass-in context to prime the
search suggestions (pattern or
complex search phrase)
• Control the perspective shown
ViewinBloom

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Deployment
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• Bloom Server deploys as a Neo4j
database plugin
• Plugin provides app-related
procedures and hosts web UI
• Supports single instance or cluster
setup of Neo4j
• Web app can be hosted by the db
HTTP server or separately
• App supports modern web
browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge
• GPU-enabled client machine
required
Bloom Desktop Client
Desktop (local) DB
Bloom Web Client
Bloom
Server
Neo4j DB Server
Neo4j DB Cluster
Bloom
Server
Bloom
Server

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Try Bloom with Neo4j Enterprise Edition
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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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Get Bloom with the Startup Program
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https://neo4j.com/startup-program/

17. Questions?
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Anurag Tandon
anurag.tandon@neo4j.com
linkedin.com/in/tandonanurag