Querying Data in Neo4j with Cypher

Abstract

When you’ve spent the time building up a data structure, planning the best relationships for the different node types, and of course collecting the data, you want results. Cypher allows us to take all of the hard work in building up a good dataset, and use that to give a better experience for users, or supply accurate recommendations. There are a lot of ways to analyze your data to show trends and gain insight into those that supplied it. Whether that is from a user making orders to generate more accurate recommendations on an e-commerce website or to a blog user seeing their most popular posts by seeing which of them has the most comments. There are many uses for data, and we’re going to cover how to use Cypher to get the data you need for a multitude of situations.