Coloring nodes in Neo4j depending on property

[martin_ebert]

This is the question I get asked more often: Can I color nodes in Neo4j Desktop and Bloom according to their properties?

Would you recommend this solution from stackoverflow or only under certain conditions?

stackoverflow

[Thomas_Silkjaer]

For quick visualisations I use virtual nodes and relationships as described in your screenshot – this is not only great for colouring things differently, but also to collapse data to a more comprehensible presentation.

E.g. in a finance related DB I have accounts and payments as separate nodes like (Account)-[has sent]->(Payment)-[has received]->(Account) but presenting it it is easier to show (Account)-[payment]->(Account).

Another angle is to look at Labels, and if there is a need to colour nodes differently in presentation, it might call for "upgrading" the property in question to a Label?

E.g. in my database all transactions have a Transaction label, but also a "TransactionType" label.

[shan]

I needed to do the same for my problem and I ended up with two alternative solutions:

1. Add labels to nodes based on their properties:

match (n:Person)
with distinct n.gender as gender, collect(distinct n) as persons
call apoc.create.addLabels(persons, [apoc.text.upperCamelCase(gender)]) yield node
return *

2. Use https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neovis.js/. The community property determines the color of the node.

The first one is easier as you don't need another tool.

[michael_hunger]

For Bloom, stay tuned for the upcoming version

[martin_ebert]

Is this gonna be a Christmas present? Or do we have to be patient until 2020?

[michael_hunger]

Unfortunately in early 2020.

[drorata]

I have something like the following:

match (n) detach delete n;

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM 'file:///data-assets.csv' AS data
Create (:Data {id: data.Id, dataName: data.Name, dataType: data.Type});

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM 'file:///data-links.csv' AS links
match (d1:Data {id:links.Source}), (d2:Data {id:links.Target})
CREate (d1)-[:Feeds]->(d2);

And I fail to connect it to your solution here. Any tips?

[hila]

@shan this is amazing, I worked it out using a gds.wcc.create algorithm output.

My followup question is this: given I have tens of distinct communities, colors of all nodes hasn't changed, even when I see that the label is registered successfully

MATCH (n:`cluster_47`) RETURN n LIMIT 25

what am I doing wrong?