What is network visualization?
Network visualization, graph visualization or link analysis is the process of visually presenting networks of connected entities as links and nodes.
Nodes represent data points and links represent the connections between them.
To look beyond your flat data model and understand connections in your data, you need powerful network visualization tools.
Why visualize networks?
The world is densely connected. If there’s an interesting relationship in your data, you’ll find value in network visualization.
It’s intuitive
Exploring networks as node-link structures instantly makes sense, even to people who’ve never worked with connected data before.
It’s fast
Our brains are great at spotting patterns, but only when the info is in a tangible format. Network visualization helps you identify trends and outliers quickly.
It’s scalable
Interactive network visualization simplifies complexity, revealing context and connections on demand. It’s ideal for getting a quick overview or focusing on specific connections.
It’s insightful
Through interactive data analysis, you gain deeper knowledge and understand context. That’s hard to achieve with a static, aggregated visualization.
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Who needs to visualize networks?
Connected data is all around us. We help organizations solve their biggest challenges.
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Cyber security
Understand cyber threats, reveal network vulnerabilities, detect malware and discover trends using visualization techniques.
Infrastructure management
Create interactive visualizations that reveal bottlenecks and vulnerabilities in connected critical infrastructure.
Security & Intelligence
Use graph visualizations and link analysis to uncover threats and critical intelligence to help make the world safer.
Are you new to network visualization?
Take a look at our DataViz 101 blog posts, including beginners’ guides to graphs, graph data modeling, graph databases and network graph visualization.
How to visualize your network data
At Cambridge Intelligence, we help developers build interactive network visualization tools that are 100% customized to their users, their data and the questions they need to answer.
JavaScript developers
Enjoy the flexibility to code how you like. Add network visualization components to your applications that work anywhere, as part of any stack.
React developers
With ReGraph’s simple data-driven API, it’s quick and easy to add network visualization components to your React applications.
Some commonly asked questions
KeyLines and ReGraph are two software development kits (SDKs) we’ve built to help developers create powerful network visualization tools. KeyLines is our toolkit for JavaScript, and ReGraph is for React developers. Learn more about KeyLines and ReGraph
KronoGraph, our toolkit for timeline visualization, lets you build fully-interactive timelines that reveal how network 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 network data. Learn more about KronoGraph
We’re the world’s leading supplier of visualization technologies for connected data. 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 SDKs
Your analysts will not need coding knowledge to use tools 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 database. Check out our products’ technology pages:
