Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

July 9, 2013

The Last Mile

Filed under: Graphs,Neo4j — Patrick Durusau @ 6:50 pm

The Last Mile by Max De Marzi.

From the post:

The “last mile” is a term used in the telecommunications industry that refers to delivering connectivity to the customers that will actually be using the system. In the sense of Graph Databases, it refers to how well the end user can extract value and insight from the graph. We’ve already seen an example of this concept with Graph Search, allowing a user to express their requests in natural language. Today we’ll see another example. We’ll be taking advantage of the features of Neo4j 2.0 to make this work, so be sure to have read the previous post on the matter.

We’re going to be using VisualSearch.js made by Samuel Clay of NewsBlur. VisualSearch.js enhances ordinary search boxes with the ability to autocomplete faceted search queries. It is quite easy to customize and there is an annotated walkthrough of the options available. You can see what it does in the image below, or click it to try their demo.

Graphs are ok.

Storing data in graphs is better.

Useful retrieval of data from graphs is the best. 😉

Max does his usual excellent job of illustrating useful retrieval of information from a Neo4j graph.

His use of labels does remind me of a post I need to finishj.

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