Jean-Baptiste, I absolutely do not intend to sound negative, but as a PhD student in Sociology you will be in trouble in your career if you cannot distinguish between a graph database query language and "development and coding" in your mind.
Michael gave you good advice about Linkurious, but that is not some Magic Bullet. You won't just crank up an app/tool (whatever you want to call it) and just do what you want in all cases. Sure, the obvious things will be covered. But do you think that your investigation will be limited only to what everybody else does? Probably not if you want to be known as a smart person who can bring new and non-obvious insights into your work. A big part of your career will be looking at and manipulating data. As a professional you will often have to provide the "glue" that gets your data into, out of, and between whatever tools you have available. Whether it is Cypher or some other means, you need to break your mental block that says, "I don't do coding." Years from now you will be thanking yourself for doing it sooner than later. Look, I'm 63 years-old and don't have to make the decisions you are facing now. But I am also smart enough (make that, have decades of experience to reflect on) to know that if I had it all to do over again and I were in your shoes, I'd be digging into neo4j with a passion and there would be nothing that could keep me from learning and growing my knowledge of Cypher (along with other things of that ilk). There is a famous scene in the film, "The Graduate," where a graduation party-goer leans over to Dustin Hoffman to give him career advice and whispers, "Plastics!" That's what I'm trying to do for you, Jean-Baptiste, "Cypher!" You do that, join this group, ask honest well-prepared questions that will get helpful timely answers, and you will be well on your way to carving a good niche (there's that social network stuff creeping in as #graphsareeverywhere) for you in your career. Good luck with your studies. Just something to think about, --Jim-- On Friday, February 14, 2014 4:31:37 PM UTC-6, Jean-Baptiste Gllpn wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a Sociology PhD student. I recently found out about Neo4j and I'm > excited about its possibilities. > > I'd like to use Neo4j to manually build a database of a political elite in > a country. I'd build that database as I read about the country, writing > down new names as they come up and linking individuals as I read about > their particular patterns of interaction. > > To do that, I would need an interface that allows me to visualize and > input data rapidly in the network, as well as search between various > attributes of nodes. The basic admin dashboard in Neo4j doesn't allow me to > do this quickly, as I can only search for node and relationship numbers, > but not their attributes. > > Let's say I create a node with the attribute "Name" as "Mr Jones", and he > gets the node number 121. Later on I find details about where he worked or > studied. I want to add these new attributes to the node, but it's hard for > me to find the node since I can't search for "Mr Jones" -- I need to either > know his node number by heart or to visualize the whole network to find him. > > Is there an interface / program that will allow me to interact easily with > Neo4j as admin? I tried Neoeclipse, but for some reason only the > relationships are loading, not the nodes, and I can't figure out how to > load the nodes or whether Neoeclipse is the right choice at all (it doesn't > seem to be updated anymore?). > > Many thanks in advance for your help! > > Jean-Baptiste. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Neo4j" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neo4j+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
