This week, we’re exploring book recommendation data as a graph. And what better source for that than Goodreads? — If you’d rather watch the recording of our livestream, enjoy it here and below. Otherwise, keep on reading. The Data Set I found a well-sized dataset on Kaggle that has the following files: books.csv (10k books and authors) tags.csv (230k tags) book_tags.csv (1M tags for books) ratings.csv (53k ratings)

The role of journalists in current times can’t be overstated. We all rely on critical and honest journalism to chronicle and alert us to the perils of humankind. But news is much more than just the articles you see on the front pages. …

I know I’m late to the game as Wordle was sold to the New York Times last week. I haven’t played it much myself just saw it popping up on my twitter stream a lot. If you haven’t played Wordle, it is a guessing game similar to mastermind, only with…

Two weeks ago, a colleague asked if I could help him import his personal ancestry data into Neo4j. He sent me a GEDCOM file, and I gave it a try. — If you missed our livestream, here is the recording: As you can guess, family trees are much better handled as a graph than as a bunch of text fragments. Here are some examples from history and pop culture, from the royal family, to Sirius Black’s family tree in “Harry…

This week we used a subset of a published NFT Trades dataset to model, import, and analyze in Neo4j AuraDB Free. — If you missed our recording here it is (sorry for the audio issues): It all started with a Tweet that I came across one late night about a research paper on NFT trades. Fortunately the authors also published the accompanying data, a whopping 6.1M …

This week we’re not focusing on a particular dataset but on an upcoming tool that will make getting CSV data into Neo4j, including AuraDB Free, much easier. — If you are looking for a guided experience for CSV data import, check out our brand new GraphAcademy Course. The Neo4j Data Importer is a client-side Browser tool, that allows you to Load CSV files Create a graph model of labeled nodes and typed relationships

As part of our ongoing exploration of Neo4j AuraDB Free, we’re looking at a fun dataset every week. This time it is the lyrics of Hamilton, the Musical. — I love Hamilton the Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, a semi-accurate retelling of the story of the founding father Alexander Hamilton with powerful lyrics and songs. If you haven’t seen it, here is a sneak in the Disney+Trailer (but there are also other uploads on youtube).

Yesterday, the Pulitzer Award winning International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published the first data-release of the recent Pandora Papers investigation. — This time the data publication was not split across the different investigations but contains the full offshoreleaks database in one dataset, so you can explore the data of shell companies, law firms, banks, and ultimate owners across all leaks and investigations.

In 2015 our data scientist Nicole White ran a Webinar “LOAD CSV in the Real World,” which is really popular. It has more than 56k views and people are still referring to it frequently because it is so well done. That’s why we decided this time in our live-stream to…