3 Your first steps with Cypher query language

This chapter covers

  • Introducing the Cypher query language syntax
  • Creating nodes and relationships with Cypher
  • Matching and retrieving data from the database
  • Removing properties and deleting nodes and relationships
  • Best practices for importing a CSV into a graph database

So far, you have learned a bit of graph theory and how to approach the labeled-property graph modeling process. Now, you will begin to learn how to perform network analysis through practical use cases. To follow the examples in this book, you need to set up a Neo4j development environment. If you need some help getting started with the setup, see the appendix.

This chapter will introduce Cypher query language clauses and best practices ...

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