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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

Further reading

  • The initial PageRank idea is detailed in this paper: S. Brin & L. Page, The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 30 (1-7); 107-117.
  • For more information about algorithms in Python, you can refer to the following:
  • Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python, Dr. B. Agarwal and B. Baka, Packt Publishing.
  • The following GitHub repository contains implementations for many algorithms in Python: https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python. If Python is not your favorite language, you can probably find yours at https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/.
  • An example of fraud detection in time series in the context of cybersecurity can be found in Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook, E. Tsukerman, Packt Publishing.
  • The following Neo4j whitepaper gives some examples of fraud detection using Neo4j: Fraud Detection: Discovering Connections with Graph Databases, white paper, G. Sadowksi & P. Rathle, Neo4j. It's...