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Learning Neo4j 3.x

You're reading from   Learning Neo4j 3.x Effective data modeling, performance tuning and data visualization techniques in Neo4j

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466143
Length 316 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Graph Theory and Databases 2. Getting Started with Neo4j FREE CHAPTER 3. Modeling Data for Neo4j 4. Getting Started with Cypher 5. Awesome Procedures on Cypher - APOC 6. Extending Cypher 7. Query Performance Tuning 8. Importing Data into Neo4j 9. Going Spatial 10. Security 11. Visualizations for Neo4j 12. Data Refactoring with Neo4j 13. Clustering 14. Use Case Example - Recommendations 15. Use Case Example - Impact Analysis and Simulation 16. Tips and Tricks

Neo4j spatial


Neo4j Spatial (later NS) is a plugin, like APOC, discussed in Chapter 5, Awesome Procedures on Cypher - APOC. The homepage of this plugin is https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/spatial.

Just like APOC, you should take care to install a version compatible with the version of your Neo4j server. See the releases tab on their GitHub landing page. The release notes and the release filenames are self-explanatory. (Thank the project leader, Craig Taverner.)

Online demo

William Lyon (https://twitter.com/lyonwj) from Neo4j has made an online demo available at this address, http://www.lyonwj.com/scdemo/index.html.

Use the polygon tool in the toolbar on the left to define a shape, double-click inside it, and you will get markers on the map to indicate restaurant locations. Let's find some restaurants in Phoenix, in an almost successfully drawn butterfly shape:

  Restaurant butterfly

While we are in the lexical field of food, let's say the demo was an amuse-bouche (appetizers) or a starter, and...

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