Importing data into Neo4j – the spreadsheet way by Rik Van Bruggen.
From the post:
I am sure that many of you are very technical people, very knowledgeable about all things Java, Dr. Who and many other things – but I in case you have ever met me, you would probably have noticed that I am not. And I don’t want to be. I love technology, but have never had the talent, inclination or education to program – so I don’t. But I still want to get data into Neo4j – so how do I do that?
There are many technical tools out there (definitely look here, here and here, but I needed something simple. So my friend and colleague Michael Hunger came to the rescue, and offered some help to create a spreadsheet to import into Neo4j.
You will find the spreadsheet here, and you will find two components:
- an instruction sheet. I will get to that later.
- a data import sheet. Let’s look at that first.
Getting Neo4j closer to the average business user.
Are spreadsheets becoming (are?) the bridge between “unstructured” data and more sophisticated data structures?
Thinking of tools like Data Explorer for example.
If so, focusing subject identity/mapping tools on spreadsheet tables might be a good move.