Hi,
Thanks for that! It worked.
Maybe someone will want to update the reference card? It says we should use
brackets with the SET command:
SET
SET n.property = {value},
n.property2 = {value2}
Update or create a property.
All the best,
Jean-Baptiste
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Michael Hunger <
michael.hun...@neopersistence.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Glad you made so much progress, well done.
>
> You just want to set the attribute to a string value? Just use normal
> double quotes.
>
>
> MATCH (a)-[:`is member of`|`heads`]->(b)
>> WHERE (b.name="Interim Transitional National Council (NTC)") or (b.name="NTC
>> Executive Board")
>> SET a.revolution_attitude = "for"
>
>
>>
> The Cypher Reference Card might come handy for you:
> http://neo4j.org/resources/cypher
>
> Cheers
>
> Michael
>
> Am 16.03.2014 um 18:14 schrieb Jean-Baptiste Gllpn <jbgallo...@gmail.com>:
>
> Dear all,
>
> a quick update on my project and a question. Thanks to Linkurious, I've
> been able to start building (by hand and from scratch) my database of
> Libyan political elites. I'm gathering data through my readings of books
> and news sources. The network, with 125 nodes (individuals and
> organizations) and 168 relationships, is still small but growing:
>
>
> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-f9y2c69YtcM/UyXap51TlbI/AAAAAAAAAQA/o9b7vLYP7GA/s1600/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2014-03-15+a%CC%80+22.12.15.png>
>
>
> It includes both biographical information (node attributes) and details on
> politically relevant relationships (alliances, kinship, antagonism, etc).
>
> I'm now messing about with Cypher to see how I can modify large segments
> of the database rapidly. I'm trying to add a new property to all nodes of a
> certain kind: all members of the Transitional National Council (the
> political leadership of the 2011 revolution) should have a
> revolution_attitude property set to 'for':
>
> MATCH (a)-[:`is member of`|`heads`]->(b)
>> WHERE (b.name="Interim Transitional National Council (NTC)") or (b.name="NTC
>> Executive Board")
>> SET a.revolution_attitude = { `for` }
>
>
> Unfortunately it's returning an error:
>
>
> Expected a parameter named for
>
> Neo.ClientError.Statement.ParameterMissing
> The error seems to come from the third line. I've tried fiddling with the
> syntax of that line, removing the ` and the brackets, etc but nothing works.
>
> Any idea as to where this is coming from?
>
> Many thanks again for your help.
>
> Jean-Baptiste
>
> On Friday, February 21, 2014 11:13:07 PM UTC, Jim Salmons wrote:
>>
>> No problem, we're here to help.
>>
>> One last point, you will find that you can get a working knowledge of
>> Cypher in short order, like hours not days. With just a basic starting
>> point you will evolve from these basic skills and incrementally add new
>> insights and tactics as you need them. Before you know it that basic skill
>> grows to familiarity without painful and time consuming effort up front.
>>
>> Good luck with your studies.
>>
>> --Jim--
>>
>> In many decades of learning and using all kinds of programming languages
>> and query languages, I can confidently say that the Neo folks have managed
>> to craft the most powerfully intuitive means to work with the unique power
>> of graph database technology.
>>
>> On Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:21:40 PM UTC-6, Jean-Baptiste Gllpn
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> thanks for your comments and encouragements.
>>>
>>> Jim -- you seem to be reading a lot into who I am and what I do. I
>>> merely deleted the post because it indadvertedly included my full name and
>>> I was not able to edit it. My approach to sociology is mostly qualitative
>>> and my current focus on Arabic language study, interview research design
>>> and country-specific knowledge means that I cannot dedicate time to
>>> learning Cypher in-depth at the moment. It will come in due time, once I
>>> have gathered sufficient data to do some serious analysis. In the meantime,
>>> Jean has been very helpful and I am going to use Linkurious to get started
>>> on building my database.
>>>
>>> Thank you all again! I might nag you with more questions once I'm a bit
>>> more advanced with my project.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jean-Baptiste
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Jim Salmons <jim.s...@softalkapple.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Erik and Jean,
>>>>
>>>> +1 to you both. Sadly, judging by the deletion of the post that
>>>> prompted my reply, I think our community is more willing to
>>>> help Jean-Baptiste than he is willing to learn. There's that old saying
>>>> about horses and water that seems to ring true here.
>>>>
>>>> And congrats Erik on your can-do spirit. Good luck with your studies.
>>>>
>>>> --Jim--
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:18:16 PM UTC-6, Erik Hanson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Jean-Baptiste, I recently did an MA project using neo4j (graphing
>>>>> characters and elements of a video game), and I don't have much of a
>>>>> background in programming (I got my BA in rhetoric and poetry). I started
>>>>> my MA project using Neoclipse, but I found that even with a fairly small
>>>>> graph, things got really slow very quickly. It turned out to be much
>>>>> quicker to learn just enough Cypher to enter new nodes and relationships.
>>>>> I
>>>>> encourage you to try it out--just experimenting with things in a
>>>>> GraphGist <http://gist.neo4j.org/> may be enough for you to learn the
>>>>> elements of Cypher that you need. I can't claim that my own Cypher stuff
>>>>> was perfect or terribly pretty, but it was straightforward and did just
>>>>> about what you are talking about.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're willing to give it a shot, I'm willing to try to help walk
>>>>> you through things.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:40:32 AM UTC-6, Jean Villedieu wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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 a topic in the
>>>> Google Groups "Neo4j" group.
>>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/
>>>> topic/neo4j/8hsBIGtO4Ec/unsubscribe.
>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to
>>>> neo4j+un...@googlegroups.com.
>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
> --
> 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/d/optout.
>
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the
> Google Groups "Neo4j" group.
> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neo4j/8hsBIGtO4Ec/unsubscribe.
> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to
> neo4j+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>
--
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/d/optout.
