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Ravindranatha Anthapu
Ravindranatha Anthapu
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Ravindranatha Anthapu

Ravindranatha Anthapu has more than 25 years of experience in working with W3C standards or building cutting-edge technologies like integrating speech with mobile applications in the 2000s. He is a technology enthusiast who worked from operating system device drivers to writing compilers for C language to modern web technologies, transitioning seamlessly and bringing experience from each of these domains and technologies to deliver successful solutions today. As a Principal Consultant at Neo4j today, Ravindranatha works with large enterprise customers to make sure they are able to leverage graph technologies effectively across various domains.
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Graph data modeling

To build a data model, you can use the Arrows.app site (https://arrows.app). The following screenshot shows an example diagram:

Figure 3.1 – Graph data model

This can be thought of as a data diagram where a set of data is drawn as a graph. It is possible to directly load the data into Neo4j with an assumed data model by skipping this part, but this approach can facilitate larger team collaboration and arrive at a better graph model. One of the aspects of this approach is to represent part of the data as a graph diagram and see how the graph traversal would work to answer our questions.

Say we have a set of questions; we can try to trace the model to see whether we can answer them:

  • How many addresses are OWNED by a person?
    • Find the person, traverse the OWNS relationship, and count the addresses
  • At which address is a person living?
    • Find the person and traverse the LIVES_AT relationship to find the required address
  • How...
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Published in: Dec 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804611074

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Ravindranatha Anthapu

Ravindranatha Anthapu has more than 25 years of experience in working with W3C standards or building cutting-edge technologies like integrating speech with mobile applications in the 2000s. He is a technology enthusiast who worked from operating system device drivers to writing compilers for C language to modern web technologies, transitioning seamlessly and bringing experience from each of these domains and technologies to deliver successful solutions today. As a Principal Consultant at Neo4j today, Ravindranatha works with large enterprise customers to make sure they are able to leverage graph technologies effectively across various domains.
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