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Learning Neo4j 3.x

You're reading from Learning Neo4j 3.x Effective data modeling, performance tuning and data visualization techniques in Neo4j

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466143

Length 316 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Neo4j

Concepts

Data Visualization

Authors (2):

Jerome Baton

Van Bruggen

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Graph Theory and Databases FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Neo4j

3. Modeling Data for Neo4j

4. Getting Started with Cypher

5. Awesome Procedures on Cypher - APOC

6. Extending Cypher

7. Query Performance Tuning

8. Importing Data into Neo4j

9. Going Spatial

10. Security

11. Visualizations for Neo4j

12. Data Refactoring with Neo4j

13. Clustering

14. Use Case Example - Recommendations

15. Use Case Example - Impact Analysis and Simulation

16. Tips and Tricks

The power of graph visualizations

In this section, we will spend time discussing the reasons why graph visualizations are so important, and highlight some of the underpinning technologies that are used in the different solutions that we will zoom into later on.

Why graph visualizations matter!

A picture is worth a thousand words.

There are many reasons why the graph visualizations that we will discuss in this chapter, as well as the ones that we have seen previously and will show hereafter, are really nice. For a limited number of reasons, they are more than nice: they matter greatly and can have a massive impact on decisions being made--big or small. Let's discuss these.

Interacting with data visually

From a very early age, we are taught to interact with data in a cognitive way--focused on analysis, not understanding. We are not supposed to or encouraged to look at data in a creative, fun, or interesting way that induces insight. This, however, is now changing. There's an entirely new discipline...

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Authors (2)

Jerome Baton

Jerome Baton

Jérôme Baton started hacking computers at the age of skin problems, gaming first then continued his trip by self-learning Basic on Amstrad CPC, peaking on coding a full screen horizontal starfield, and messing the interlace of the video controller so that sprites appeared twice as high in horizontal beat'em up games. Disks were three inches for 178 Kb then. Then, for gaming reasons, he switched to Commodore Amiga and its fantastic AMOS Basic. Later caught by seriousness and studies, he wrote Turbo Pascal, C, COBOL, Visual C++, and Java on PCs and mainframes at university, and even Logo in high school. Then, Java happened and he became a consultant, mostly on backend code of websites in many different businesses. Jérôme authored several articles in French on Neo4j, JBoss Forge, an Arduino workshop for Devoxx4Kids, and reviewed kilos of books on Android. He has a weakness for wordplay, puns, spoonerisms, and Neo4j that relieves him from join(t) pains. Jérôme also has the joy to teach in French universities, currently at I.U.T de Paris, Université Paris V - René Descartes (Neo4j, Android), and Université de Troyes (Neo4j), where he does his best to enterTRain the students. When not programming, Jérôme enjoys photography, doing electronics, everything DIY, understanding how things work, trying to be clever or funny on Twitter, and spends a lot of time trying to understand his kids and life in general.

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Van Bruggen

Van Bruggen

Rik Van Bruggen is the VP of Sales for Neo Technology for Benelux, UK, and the Nordic region. He has been working for startup companies for most of his career, including eCom Interactive Expertise, SilverStream Software, Imprivata, and Courion. While he has an interest in technology, his real passion is business and how to make technology work for a business. He lives in Antwerp, Belgium, with his wife and three lovely kids, and enjoys technology, orienteering, jogging, and Belgian beer.

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