NeoDash - Building Neo4j Dashboards In Minutes

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NeoDash - Building Neo4j
Dashboards in Minutes ⚡
Niels de Jong
Consulting Engineer
Professional Services | Neo4j EMEA

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Reporting
Exploration
Analytics
Build Data
Loading
Pipeline
Build
Graph
Model
Time
A typical Neo4j project looks something like this:
Setting the Stage - a Neo4j Journey
*In practice, all these things tend to blend together.
Dashboards play a key role in Reporting.

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Reporting Tools 📊
A reporting tool makes your graph visible to end-users. They can:
1. Render graphs, tables, plots and more.
2. Have curated dashboards for decision-makers.
Mainstream BI Tools
(Using the BI Connector)
Graph-Native Tools
(Using Cypher)
Build-It-Yourself
(Using custom visualizations)

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What is NeoDash?
NeoDash is an open-source, low-code Dashboard Builder for Neo4j. It
lets you build an interactive dashboard with tables, graphs, bar charts,
line charts, maps and more, in minutes.
👤
500 active users
🌎
50 countries
⭐
15 contributors
👩🔬
community project

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The NeoDash Dashboard Editor 📝
NeoDash is a low-code application:
- Use powerful Cypher queries to populate reports.
- Drag-and-drop interface.
- Build and publish dashboards in a matter of minutes.

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Customizability 🎨
NeoDash has Customizable layouts, colors and
styling for a variety of visualizations:
- Graphs
- Tables
- Bar Charts
- Line Charts
- Pie Charts
- Maps
- Sunburst Charts
- Treemaps
- … and more!

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NeoDash has a deep integration with Neo4j:
Dynamically generate Cypher queries based on live data from your database.
Interactivity 💫

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Explainable AI / Graph Data Science
Data Analysis
Monitoring / Root-Cause Analysis
Data Validation

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NeoDash
Dashboard
Link it all together
Bloom
Perspective
Custom
Front-end
Using deep-links, you can tie up NeoDash with other parts of your Neo4j
solution for seamless reporting and exploration.

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What type of people need NeoDash? 🧑💻
Neo4j Browser Neo4j Bloom NeoDash
👤 Developers
Know Cypher + Programming
🛠🛠 Build / 🔍 View
👤 Data Analysts
Know Cypher
🛠🛠 Build / 🔍 View 🛠🛠 Build / 🔍 View 🛠🛠 Build
👤 Business Users
Need a curated data view
🔍 View
NeoDash brings down the time-to-value for business users to view the graph,
and make key decisions on their data.
*Keep in mind: NeoDash is a community project, and not a Neo4j product. Treat NeoDash as any other
open-source tool that’s part of your infrastructure!

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- Write Cypher queries
- Design and structure dashboards
- Customize visualizations
1. Build 3. View
- Log in with user/password (SSO)
- Inspect visualizations on live data.
- See a fixed dashboard on a fixed
database.
2. Deploy
- Set up a standalone
instance of NeoDash
(Docker).
- Configure it with SSO.
- Set up a CD pipeline to
publish dashboards.
Publishing Dashboards

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Professional Services 🌳
Community Support 🌱
Want to get the most out of
NeoDash? Reach out if you need
help with:
- Training users
- Custom Extensions
- Installation/Configuration
*Available as part of a commercial services agreement for
Neo4j customers.
We are very open to hear your
feedback and ideas! You can
reach the development team by:
Creating an issue on GitHub
Reaching out to us on Discord
Posting on the Neo4j Forums
*Community support on a best-effort basis from the team.

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When do I (not) use NeoDash?
You should use NeoDash when:
✅ You want to report on live graph data with powerful Cypher queries.
✅ You need a low-code, interactive Neo4j dashboard.
✅ You want to deploy dashboards to a predefined set of users*.
You should not use NeoDash when:
❌ You need simple views without Cypher → Use BI Connector
❌ You need powerful graph exploration → Use Bloom
❌ You need embedded graphs in your front-end → Use Custom
Visualizations

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To learn more about how people use NeoDash,
visit some of the other presentations at
GraphConnect!