For the past couple of years, I have been preaching the Neo4j gospel in many different places, meetups, conferences, and what have you. For the most part, I have been using a very specific demo that has been super well-received: The Belgian Beer Graph. It started out as a learning experience for me personally back in the day when Neo4j did not have any proper data import functionality - and I had to load the graph by jumping through all kinds of hoops.
| @GrabResolver(name="neo4j", root="http://m2.neo4j.org/") | |
| @GrabResolver(name="restlet", root="http://maven.restlet.org/") | |
| @GrabConfig(systemClassLoader = true) | |
| @Grab('org.neo4j:neo4j-jdbc:2.1.4') | |
| import groovy.sql.* | |
| def sql = Sql.newInstance('jdbc:neo4j://localhost:7474/') | |
| def titles=["abc","def","ghi"] | |
| titles.each { | |
| sql.execute """ |
Academic research largely consists in reading and writing texts. These texts can be modelled as a conversation. To be a reasercher, on this model, is to enter into a scientific conversation, to listen (read) and occassionaly to speak (write).
Texts embodying contributions to the scientific conversation are published as book chapters, articles in peer reviewed journals, conference papers &c. For the individual researcher, a major task involves identifying which of these published items are relevant to one’s research, to be able to study them and to respond.
| = Car manufacturers 2013 | |
| This is a graph of all the major car manufacturers and their earnings in 2013, alongside all of their main suppliers. | |
| It also shows the relationships between the various manufactures: cooperations, jointventuress and stock ownership. and the type of those | |
| relationships.(For example a cooperation can be of the type: research/development) | |
| //hide |
