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Hands-On Graph Analytics with Neo4j

You're reading from   Hands-On Graph Analytics with Neo4j Perform graph processing and visualization techniques using connected data across your enterprise

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212611
Length 510 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Graph Modeling with Neo4j
2. Graph Databases FREE CHAPTER 3. The Cypher Query Language 4. Empowering Your Business with Pure Cypher 5. Section 2: Graph Algorithms
6. The Graph Data Science Library and Path Finding 7. Spatial Data 8. Node Importance 9. Community Detection and Similarity Measures 10. Section 3: Machine Learning on Graphs
11. Using Graph-based Features in Machine Learning 12. Predicting Relationships 13. Graph Embedding - from Graphs to Matrices 14. Section 4: Neo4j for Production
15. Using Neo4j in Your Web Application 16. Neo4j at Scale 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a geometry layer in Neo4j with neo4j-spatial

neo4j-spatial is an extension of Neo4j containing tools to represent and manipulate complex spatial data types. In this section, we are going to learn about this plugin by importing data on districts in Manhattan and finding points of interest located within each district.

Introducing the neo4j-spatial library

The neo4j-spatial plugin can be installed by downloading the latest release jar from https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/spatial/releases and copying this jar to the plugins directory of your active graph. You then need to restart the graph for the changes to be taken into account. Once this is done, you can check that the spatial plugin is enabled by calling the spatial.procedures() procedure, listing all available procedures within the plugin:

CALL spatial.procedures()

With this plugin, we will be able to do the following:

  • Import from well-known geographic data formats such as shapefile
  • Use topology operations such as contains...
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