Chapter 9: Building a Data-Driven Graph-Powered Application

So far, we have provided you with both theoretical and practical ideas to allow you to design and implement machine learning models that leverage graph structures. Besides designing the algorithm, it is often very important to embed the modeling/analytical pipeline into a robust and reliable end-to-end application. This is especially true in industrial applications, where the end goal is usually to design and implement production systems that support data-driven decisions and/or provide users with timely information. However, creating a data-driven application that resorts to graph representation/modeling is indeed a challenging task that requires a proper design that is a lot more complicated than simply importing networkx. This chapter aims to provide you with a general overview of the key concepts and frameworks that are used when building graph-based, scalable, data-driven applications.

We will start by providing an...