Neo4j + Tableau Visual Analytics

What is Tableau?

"Visual Analytics for Everyone"

But, but... those aren't graphs!

So why is this a good idea?

• Tableau is a market leader for Business Intelligence *

• Super easy to use for "normal" users

• Sometimes, tables are a useful way to look at graphs

* http://www.tableau.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-2015

(neo4j) --> (tableau) 3 ways

Using a Web Data Connector

(neo4j)-[WDC]->(tableau)

:Desktop:TableauExport

Extension1) GET /WDC

2) POST {query}

(neo4j)-[export]->(tableau)

TDE Export from Neo4j

:Desktop:TableauExport

Extension

1) POST {query}

:TDE

2) generate

:Web Browser

3) open

:Desktop:TableauExport

Extension

1) POST {query}

2) publish

:Web Browser

3) open

:Server

(neo4j)-[publish]->(tableau)

Publish to Tableau Server

What's the plan?

• Beta releases by the end of the year

• Limited to queries which return primitive values

• For graphy stuff, return calculated values

• path lengths, node degrees

• Some day, Tableau will learn about graph-graphs

• Node, Relationships, Paths, Subgraphs

* http://www.tableau.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-2015

Thanks! Questions? Requests?

andreas@neotechnology.com