Explore

Introduction

You will learn how to:

The Explore tool allows you to:

Visualize and explore your graph data.
Interact with your data
Search for nodes and relationships, visualize them, and edit the graph directly.

Open the Explore tool and connect to your Aura instance.

Use the search bar to find Orders and their related Customers.

Explore the results.

No Cypher knowledge required: You can explore your data without needing to write Cypher queries.
Visual exploration: You can interact with your data visually, making it easier to understand relationships and patterns.
Editing capabilities: You can edit nodes and relationships directly in the graph view, without needing to write Cypher commands.
Perspectives: You can create and share Perspectives, which are predefined views of your data that can include specific search phrases and styling options.

The model has to be understood. You can explore the data knowing what the database holds and how it is organized.
Security does apply. If the user’s role does not allow editing the database this step will not work. The user will be informed about that.
Defining these queries (also known as search phrases) does require knowledge of Cypher syntax. As the Perspectives can be shared, not everybody needs to have that knowledge.

In this lesson, you about the explore tool, how to connect to your Aura instance, and how to visualize and interact with your graph data.

In the next lesson, you will create a dashboard to visualize key metrics from your graph data.