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
Network visualization lets you simplify complexity, see context and understand detail. With one chart, you can get an overview or dive into 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.
Ready to learn more?
Our white papers introduce network visualization topics, from use cases to specific techniques.
Who needs to visualize networks?
Connected data is all around us. We help organizations solve their biggest challenges.
Law enforcement & security
Join the dots between people, places and events and filter out the noise that stops you seeing the connections and preventing crime.
Infrastructure management
Create interactive visualizations that reveal bottlenecks and vulnerabilities in connected critical infrastructure.
Anti-fraud
Uncover unusual activities to identify, predict and prevent all kinds of fraud: from insurance scams to VAT fraud.
Cyber security
Make sense of vast, complex and densely-connected data to uncover cyber security threats and help keep networks secure.
Interested in learning more about the real-world uses of network visualization?
How to visualize your network data
At Cambridge Intelligence, we help developers build network visualization tools that are 100% customized to their users, their data and the questions they need to answer.
Network visualization for JavaScript developers
Enjoy the flexibility to code how you like. Add network visualization to your applications that work anywhere, as part of any stack.
Network visualization for React developers
With ReGraph’s simple data-driven API, it’s quick and easy to add network visualizations to your React applications.