Hi everyone, @Jim : +1, a deep understanding of the underlying tech behind data is key. @Jean-Baptiste : you should reach out, I'm sure we can help.
Thank you Michael for mentioning Linkurious ;) Jean On Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:40:25 PM UTC+1, Jim Salmons wrote: > > 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.
