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Graph Data Science with Neo4j

By : Estelle Scifo
5 (1)
Book Image

Graph Data Science with Neo4j

5 (1)
By: Estelle Scifo

Overview of this book

Neo4j, along with its Graph Data Science (GDS) library, is a complete solution to store, query, and analyze graph data. As graph databases are getting more popular among developers, data scientists are likely to face such databases in their career, making it an indispensable skill to work with graph algorithms for extracting context information and improving the overall model prediction performance. Data scientists working with Python will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to Neo4j and the GDS library that offers step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical instructions for implementing data science techniques on graph data using the latest Neo4j version 5 and its associated libraries. You’ll start by querying Neo4j with Cypher and learn how to characterize graph datasets. As you get the hang of running graph algorithms on graph data stored into Neo4j, you’ll understand the new and advanced capabilities of the GDS library that enable you to make predictions and write data science pipelines. Using the newly released GDSL Python driver, you’ll be able to integrate graph algorithms into your ML pipeline. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to take advantage of the relationships in your dataset to improve your current model and make other types of elaborate predictions.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Creating Graph Data in Neo4j
4
Part 2 – Exploring and Characterizing Graph Data with Neo4j
8
Part 3 – Making Predictions on a Graph

Further reading

If you want to explore the concepts described in this chapter in more detail, please refer to the following references:

  • Graph Databases, The Definitive Book of Graph Databases, by I. Robinson, J. Webber, and E. Eifrem (O’Reilly). The authors, among which is Emil Eifrem, the CEO of Neo technologies, explain graph databases and graph data modeling, also covering the internal implementation. Very instructive!
  • Learning Neo4j 3.x - Second Edition, by J. Baton and R. Van Bruggen. Even if written for an older version of Neo4j, most of the concepts it describes are still valid – the newer Neo4j versions have mostly added new features such as clustering for scalability, without breaking changes.
  • The openCypher project (https://opencypher.org/) and GQL specification (https://www.gqlstandards.org/) to learn about graph query language beyond Cypher.