which is correct as when using Neo4j with code one should use parameters which
are these things in curly braces.
which your neo4j statement correctly complains about -> "no parameter 'for' "
(for is probably also a misleading name for a value)
Am 17.03.2014 um 13:09 schrieb Jean-Baptiste Gallopin <jbgallo...@gmail.com>:
> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 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.
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