Curiously Related Words Constructing Our Query

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Querying data#

Neo4j uses a query language called Cypher¹. Cypher was inspired by ASCII art and lets us represent our ideas very intuitively. Nodes are represented as being in parentheses while relationships are shown as arrows between nodes. If you have some spare time I’d suggest you play around with Cypher before continuing to familiarize yourself.

What did we want?#

If we go way back to the original post we said we wanted two things:

Curiously Related Words in Neo4j

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 08:08:07 +1100

What we have#

In the previous post I showed how to parse EtymDB and convert it into a format usable by the admin-import tool. We should now have five csv files:

vertex/full.csv
vertex/small.csv
vertex/with_embedding.csv
vertex/with_meaning.csv
relationships.csv

Getting Neo4j#

Neo4j in the cloud#

Neo4j provides a cloud service with a free tier. Unfortunately, the free tier is capped at 200k nodes and 400k relationships. We’ve 1.8M nodes and 640k relationships. Unfortunately the free tier is not going to cut it.