Last year eBay built a chatbot using Neo4j. Unfortunately we have grown so big I didn’t get a chance to work on that project and kinda feel left out. So I decided I’m going to build my own chatbot with Neo4j. As usual I’ve never done this before, have very little idea what I’m doing, have no team, and have barely any time to get this done. So with those disclaimers out of the way, let’s see what we can do.
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Is not that thing above. That’s a Chart, not a Graph. But anyway…Neo4j is designed to support the property graph model natively. There are a host of other technologies that can bolt-on a “graph layer” of some kind. However it doesn’t make them a graph database. It’s like adding a rear spoiler to a van, sure it may look cool… or ridiculous, but it won’t make it a race car. Don’t fall for it. If you need fast graph queries, use a real graph database. But today we won’t talk about that. Instead we’re going to talk about the real property graph…
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Summer is over, and things are starting to get a little cloudy. At Neo4j we provide a full service cloud hosting offering to select Enterprise customers and have been publishing guides on how to run your own clusters in the Google Cloud Platform, Amazon EC2, and Microsoft Azure. Tune in to our Neo4j Online Developer Summit on Thursday, October 10, 2019 for even more cloud goodness. You don’t want to miss it.
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In the last blog post, we saw how we can use Neo4j to find the merchants where credit card fraud originated or was used for testing stolen data in order to prevent further fraudulent charges. It stemmed from a webinar on our amazing youtube channel with has hundreds of videos about graphs and Neo4j. We will continue diving in to the technical details by looking at how Neo4j can help you find Fraud Rings. The way this fraud works is that a large set of synthetic accounts are created and act like normal customers. Over time they request higher and higher levels of credit which they pay back on time. Then they all request the maximum credit they can get, take out the money, and disappear! Let’s find them before this happens.
It’s no secret that one of our hottest use cases lately has been Fraud Detection. A while back we did a webinar talking about some of the ways you could use Neo4j to fight fraud. Watch it, if you haven’t yet. Today I want to augment that webinar with some cypher queries. Let’s see how it works:
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As a foreigner I was a little perplexed the first time I went to IHOP. You are served a stack of pancakes 3-5 high. How do you eat them? Do you pour syrup over the top and cut down through all the layers and eat them that way… or do you unstack them, pour syrup over each one and eat one at a time? If you are American, you eat them stacked. If you see someone eat them one at a time, you know they are shape-shifting lizard people. But doesn’t that mean the bottom layers are dry and don’t get any butter or syrup on them? Well you would think, but Americans are an ingenious people and they found a way to fix that problem. More syrup, more and more, and then a bit more to be sure… and a side of bacon. Now that you know all about IHOP, let’s switch gears to KHOP. Let’s say you wanted to find out how many nodes there were k-hops away from a starting node. What would be the best way to do that?
How does the saying go? There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks. I’ve already made my feelings about database vendor benchmarks known, but in case you missed it. They are complete fabrications. Never to be trusted, never ever. Never. But vendors love to do benchmarks, they love spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt instead of spending their time doing productive things like creating useful content that teaches people how to use their product. I wish I could just ignore this nonsense and focus on what really matters, like helping our customers to successful production rollouts, but alas, here we are.
If you are friends with Jessie, and Jessie is friends with Amy, there is a good chance you’ll eventually become friends with Amy too. In terms of a graph, this would be like a graph with three nodes and two relationships eventually building a third relationship to form a clique. This simple concept is one of the basis for recommendation engines. There are fancy terms for it, like “triadic closure” but basically it just means we are making triangles. But what about Amy’s friend Delilah? Is there a good chance now that you are friends with Amy that you’ll become friends with her? What about Jessie and Delilah? Can we extend the pattern to four nodes or five nodes and go beyond our simple triangle? Continue reading
If you’ve been going through the free Graph Algorithms book from Mark Needham and Amy E. Hodler you’ll eventually get to “Chapter 8: Using Graph Algorithms to Enhance Machine Learning”. This is a long chapter which walks us through how to use Graph Features to build and improve machine learning models. If you need a little help with it, take advantage of this public Jupyter notebook on Anaconda. Give it a shot, and let me know if you run into any issues.
No. Not modeling events, I’m talking about modeling events. Things that happen at different times typically in some known sequence. If you are a long time follower of my blog you know I love promoting the date property of an event into the relationship type to make use of Neo4j’s individual Node-RelationshipType partitioning to speed up my queries, but I’m going to show you something different today.
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