What are dashboards?

Neo4j dashboards let you compose different visualizations such as tables and graphs in tabbed pages to have relevant data at a glance.

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Figure 1. A sample dashboard

Neo4j dashboards' main features include:

  • Neo4j dashboards operate directly on your graph data via Cypher queries.

  • Manage and customize your dashboards, dashboard pages and cards.

  • Customize visualizations via settings and their corresponding Cypher query.

Create a dashboard

You can create dashboards in two ways:

  • Create with AI: Use natural language to generate Cypher queries and visualizations automatically.

  • Create with Cypher: Write your own Cypher queries to define charts and data relationships.

The number of dashboards you can create depends on your Aura tier:

  • AuraDB Free: three dashboards

  • AuraDB Professional: 25 dashboards

  • AuraDB Business Critical and Virtual Dedicated Cloud: unlimited dashboards

Sample dataset

To create a dashboard you need an instance with some data in it.

The examples in the dashboard documentation refer to the Northwind dataset. To import the Northwind dataset to your instance:

  • In Aura, select Learning from the navigation.

  • In the Beginner page, select the Learn the basics guide.

  • When prompted to Connect to instance, select the instance where you would like to import sample data.

  • In step 4 of 11 of the guide, import via Get the Northwind dataset.

  • Run the import from the Import page via Run import.

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Figure 2. Northwind dataset