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Hands-On Graph Analytics with Neo4j

By : Estelle Scifo
Book Image

Hands-On Graph Analytics with Neo4j

By: Estelle Scifo

Overview of this book

Neo4j is a graph database that includes plugins to run complex graph algorithms. The book starts with an introduction to the basics of graph analytics, the Cypher query language, and graph architecture components, and helps you to understand why enterprises have started to adopt graph analytics within their organizations. You’ll find out how to implement Neo4j algorithms and techniques and explore various graph analytics methods to reveal complex relationships in your data. You’ll be able to implement graph analytics catering to different domains such as fraud detection, graph-based search, recommendation systems, social networking, and data management. You’ll also learn how to store data in graph databases and extract valuable insights from it. As you become well-versed with the techniques, you’ll discover graph machine learning in order to address simple to complex challenges using Neo4j. You will also understand how to use graph data in a machine learning model in order to make predictions based on your data. Finally, you’ll get to grips with structuring a web application for production using Neo4j. By the end of this book, you’ll not only be able to harness the power of graphs to handle a broad range of problem areas, but you’ll also have learned how to use Neo4j efficiently to identify complex relationships in your data.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Graph Modeling with Neo4j
5
Section 2: Graph Algorithms
10
Section 3: Machine Learning on Graphs
14
Section 4: Neo4j for Production

Using graph-based features with pandas and scikit-learn

In the previous section, we created a graph model connecting our users. We have also run some graph algorithms to understand the graph structure. We are now going to take full advantage of the GDS to extract graph-based features.

Extracting graph-based features from Neo4j Browser

In a prototyping phase, it is always good to be able to run single queries manually and extract the data from there. In the following subsections, we are going to review how to run graph algorithms from the GDS in Neo4j Browser and how to extract the data into a format usable by our data science tools – namely, CSV.

Creating the projected graph

We could create a named projected graph using the same parameters as in the previous section:

nodeProjection: "User",
relationshipProjection: {
FOLLOWS: {
type: "FOLLOWS",
orientation: "UNDIRECTED",
aggregation: "SINGLE"
}
}

However, we know that our graph contains several disconnected...