What is graph visualization?
Graph visualization, also called ‘link analysis’ or ‘network visualization’, is the process of visually presenting connected entities as networks of nodes and links.
The visualizations are interactive, giving an intuitive way to explore complex connected data at scale.
Our white paper – the ultimate guide to graph visualization – introduces the topic in more detail.
Why visualize graphs?
The world is densely connected. If there’s an interesting relationship in your data, graph visualization tools will help you understand them.
It’s intuitive
The graph visualization node-link model instantly makes sense, even to people who’ve never worked with graphs before.
It’s fast
Our brains are great at spotting patterns, but only when information is presented in a tangible format. Graph visualization helps you identify trends and outliers quickly.
It’s scalable
Get a high-level overview before diving into the details – all in a single chart. Interactive graph visualization goes beyond individual data points, revealing context and structure as well as individual connections.
It’s insightful
Through interactive visual analysis, you gain deeper knowledge of your data and its connections. That’s hard to achieve with a static, aggregated visualization.
The ultimate guide to graph visualization
Everything you need to start building effective graph visualizations
that’ll help your users find insight in connected data fast.
Graph visualization use cases
Connected data is all around us. Visualizing helps to solve some pretty big challenges.
Can’t see your use case here? Check out our use cases page.
Cyber security
Understand cyber threats, reveal network vulnerabilities, detect malware and discover trends using visualization techniques.
Anti-fraud
Visualize unusual activities and connections to identify, investigate and predict any type of fraud – from identity theft to financial crime.
Security & Intelligence
Use link analysis to uncover threats and critical intelligence to help make the world safer.
Try our graph visualization toolkits
Why choose our visualization technology?
We’ve designed our toolkits with developers’ needs in mind. There’s a fully-documented API, step-by-step tutorials and over 80 demos – all with downloadable source code.
Graph visualization for JavaScript
Graph visualization for React
Some commonly asked questions
KeyLines and ReGraph are two software development kits (SDKs) we’ve built to help developers create powerful graph visualization tools. Learn more about KeyLines and ReGraph
KronoGraph, our toolkit for timeline visualization, lets you build fully-interactive timelines that reveal how events unfold and how they’re linked. It’s a standalone toolkit that integrates seamlessly with KeyLines and ReGraph, so users get two powerful ways to visualize and analyze their graph data. Learn more about KronoGraph
We’re the world’s leading supplier of data visualization technology. From law enforcement to cybersecurity and fraud detection, we work with organizations around the globe. Every day, thousands of analysts rely on our technology to ‘join the dots’ in data and uncover hidden threats.
More than 200 customers worldwide use our SDKs, from government agencies, police forces and global banks, software vendors and technology start-ups.
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Off-the-shelf applications have a defined user interface and experience built into the software – a one-size-fits-all approach. SDKs give the flexibility to design and build custom applications that look and behave as your users need them to. These custom applications are easier to use and more effective as a result. Read more about it in Open source vs SDK
Your analysts will not need coding knowledge to use data visualization applications built with our SDKs. However, you will need some JavaScript experience to build and deploy those applications. We’ve worked hard to make that process simple, with first-class support and documentation, and consulting services on stand-by.
We’ve worked hard to ensure KeyLines and ReGraph apps ‘just work’ in any setup. You can keep your existing servers and code in your preferred JavaScript framework. We also have integration guides to help you connect to your favorite graph database from Neo4j to Amazon Neptune. Check out our products’ technology pages:
