I have been using the Alchemy.js library to do some graph visualisation for netorks. Its pretty good, my default template is below as I had some trouble with those I found on around the internet.
It makes a simple graph with node labels visible, and takes the data as a .json file. I produce the data file from an R script that extracts data out of the Neo4J database. The basic code for that is below. One thing to remember with this is that the data file with the network in is easily accessible to anyone that might want to download it. So if it constitutes a lot of work and you don’t want anyone to get hold of it (e.g. if it is research you intend to publish at a later point), this isn’t the method for you.
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/alchemyjs/0.4.2/alchemy.min.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Network Visualisation</h1>
<div class="alchemy" id="alchemy"></div>
<script src="http://cdn.graphalchemist.com/alchemy.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/alchemyjs/0.4.2/alchemy.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/alchemyjs/0.4.2/scripts/vendor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var config = {
dataSource: 'data.json',
forceLocked: false,
graphHeight: function(){ return 1000; },
graphWidth: function(){ return 1000; },
linkDistance: function(){ return 40; },
nodeCaptionsOnByDefault: true,
"nodeCaption": 'name',
"nodeMouseOver": 'name'
};
alchemy = new Alchemy(config)
</script>
</body>
</html>
Here is the R code that generates json data file from the Neo4J database, its really simple. Connect to the local running Neo4J database, run a query to get the nodes, run a query to get the relationships (edges), and then I did some quick clustering analysis in iGraph. You need to do a bit of work to get the communities into the dataframe, if you cluster. You then need to do a little work to get the json file. Its pretty good an not a lot of code to get a nice visualisation from your Neo4J database.
library(RNeo4j)
library(igraph)
neo4j = startGraph("http://localhost:7474/db/data/")
nodes_query = "MATCH (a) RETURN DISTINCT ID(a) AS id, a.name AS name, labels(a) AS type"
nodes = cypher(neo4j, nodes_query)
rels_query = "MATCH (a1)--(a2) RETURN ID(a1) AS source, ID(a2) AS target"
rels = cypher(neo4j, rels_query)
ig = graph.data.frame(rels,directed=TRUE,nodes)
communities = edge.betweenness.community(ig)
memb = data.frame(name = communities$names, cluster = communities$membership)
nodes = merge(nodes, memb)
nodes_json = paste0("\"nodes\":", jsonlite::toJSON(nodes))
edges_json = paste0("\"edges\":", jsonlite::toJSON(rels))
all_json = paste0("{", nodes_json, ",", edges_json, "}")
sink(file = 'data.json')
cat(all_json)
sink()
