Using visualization tools
We will take a look at the visualization tools available to present the results. The visualization tools available from Neo4j are already installed in Neo4j Desktop by default. These are as follows:
- Neo4j Browser: We have looked at using Neo4j Browser to interact with databases in Chapter 1, Introduction to Neo4j and Cypher. It is a very good tool for developers to interact with databases.
- Bloom: Bloom is a more powerful graph visualization tool than Neo4j Browser. While Neo4j Browser is aimed more at developers, Bloom is aimed at end users exploring graphs using more natural language queries. It provides the following capabilities:
- High-performance, GPU-powered rendering to create large graphs with physics-based layouts.
- Data exploration functionality without needing to learn Cypher with the ability to use near-natural language search phrases.
- The ability to selectively expand the nodes and relationships along with inspecting the properties.
- The ability...