Exercises

To make sure you understand the topics covered in this chapter before moving on to the next one, you are encouraged to think about the following:

1. What is the advantage of a MERGE statement over CREATE?
2. Can raw Cypher parse JSON data? What tool should you use for that?
3. Practice! Using the Netflix dataset, set the movie’s genres contained in the listed_in column in the CSV dataset (assume Movies has already been imported).
4. Practice! Using the Netflix JSON dataset, write a Cypher query to import actors (assume Movies has already been imported).
5. Knowing that a given user – let’s call her Alice – watched the movie named Confessions of an Invisible Girl, what other Netflix content can we recommend to Alice?
6. Practice! Refine the SPARQL query we’ve built to make sure the person is an actor or movie director.

Help: You can use Robert Cullen as an example.

The answers are provided at the end of this book.

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