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LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government
https://littlesis.org
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Graph databases #135

Closed patcon closed 4 years ago

patcon commented 7 years ago

Hi all! Sorry, new here and still getting acquainted.

Have there been any previous discussions about experimenting with graph databases like Neo4j in order to capitalize on tools already designed for visualizing graph data?

And related, if someone were interested in experimenting, might it be possible to get a database dump so that I could use the RDBMS-to-Neo4j ETL Tool to try to get data into a format that would work with Popoto.js

aepyornis commented 7 years ago

Hey @patcon

Delighted you are interested in the project.

Yes, we've thought about experimenting with graph databases before. That Neo4J conversion tool will work (it's been tried before). I've been meaning to find the time to explore our data in Neo4j more thoroughly.

Popoto.js looks interesting. There's some code that exists already to generate networks graphs for entities in json that's buried in an old branch that's on my todo list to extract ( #43).

aepyornis commented 5 years ago

see public-accountability/neo4j for neo4j import example (still in it's early stages)