In this Session…

Before you begin…

  • Inspecting properties.

  • Using Extract to model new categories and relationships from properties.

  • Exporting data and saving data Views.

To follow along, you can download:

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How To GraphXR 3. Properties and Extract

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Before You Begin…

Ideally, you’ll have worked through Module 2. Import, Navigate, and Select Data. If you’re starting here, and you want to follow along, you’ll need to:

  • Log in to GraphXR, create a Project, and open its graph space. 

  • Download the file https://kineviz.com/s/GXR_QSG.zip, which contains the Game of Thrones data we’ll use in our tutorials.

  • Unzip it and drag and drop the Characters.csv file onto the graph space.

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When we drop Characters.csv on the graph space, columns in the spreadsheet (name, houseName, etc become properties of the nodes. For a table of the nodes and their properties, click Table on the Main Menu, and the Category label.

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We can use a property to define a new category and relationship and extract new nodes and edges connected to the original Character nodes.

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Let’s switch to Property view. In the Legend, click the Property tab. A dropdown menu with the first property name appears. Below it is a scrollable list of each unique value for that property in the graph.  

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The houseName property has just a few unique values, one for each of the great houses (families) in Game of Thrones. Now let’s create nodes for the Houses. Open the Transform panel => Extract tab.

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The Transform panel includes some of GraphXR’s most powerful capabilities, letting you interactively model your data. Transforms affect the whole graph if nothing is selected. If you make a  selection, a transform operates on only those elements.

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We’ll create a House category from the houseName property, and a BELONGS_TO relationship in the process that links House nodes to their Character node sources.

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Set houseName as a key so that a single node is created for each unique value of houseName, and not a separate one for every source node. Now click Run.

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In the Legend, click the Category and Relationship tabs. You’ll see that a node has been created for each House, and Character nodes are now connected to a House via edges of the BELONGS_TO relationship.

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Click the Property tab, and notice that Characters with an empty houseName property value are assigned to a House labeled not available. If you click the skip empty checkbox before extracting, those Character nodes remain unconnected.

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This is a good time to save our work! Open the Project panel => Data tab. You can download the current state of your graph as a GraphXR (GXRF) file, export it as a group of CSVs ( or write back to a Neo4j database, if you have connected to one).

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You can also save to the cloud by creating a View. Enter a descriptive name and click Save  View. The current view is highlighted.
You can load any saved view, update or delete it, and share it with another user.

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Now that we’ve saved our progress, let’s go on to Module 4: Link and Filter and bring in more data.

Next Steps…