Learning Neo4j 3.x - Second Edition

Recommendations based on social ties

In the next version of our recommendation queries, we will be using the relationships--in this particular dataset, based on family ties between parents and/or siblings--between our users to come up with some useful recommendations for their next purchase.

Let's look at the following query:

match (p:Person)-[b:BOUGHT]->(prod:Product),p<-[r1]-(parent:Person)-[r2]->(sibling:Person) 
where type(r1) in ["MOTHER_OF","FATHER_OF"] and type(r2) in ["MOTHER_OF","FATHER_OF"] 
and not(sibling-[:BOUGHT]->prod) 
return p.name as Person, prod.name as RecommendedProduct, collect(sibling.name) as ForSiblings; 

This would give us the products bought by a specific person, and looks for siblings (who have the same mother or ...