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Learning Neo4j

You're reading from   Learning Neo4j Run blazingly fast queries on complex graph datasets with the power of the Neo4j graph database

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849517164
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Graphs and Graph Theory – an Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Graph Databases – Overview 3. Getting Started with Neo4j 4. Modeling Data for Neo4j 5. Importing Data into Neo4j 6. Use Case Example – Recommendations 7. Use Case Example – Impact Analysis and Simulation 8. Visualizations for Neo4j 9. Other Tools Related to Neo4j A. Where to Find More Information Related to Neo4j B. Getting Started with Cypher Index

Using a graph model for recommendations


We will be using a very specific data model for our recommender system, which is based on the dataset that we imported in the previous chapter. All we have changed is that we added a couple of products and brands to the model, and inserted some data into the database correspondingly. In total, we added the following:

  • Ten products

  • Three product brands

  • Fifty relationships between existing person nodes and the mentioned products, highlighting that these persons bought these products

These are the products and brands that we added:

Adding products and brands to the dataset

The following diagram shows the resulting model:

In Neo4j, that model will look something like the following:

A graph model for our recommender model

A dataset like this one, while of course a broad simplification, offers us some interesting possibilities for a recommender system. Let's take a look at some queries that could really match this use case, and that would allow us to either visually...

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