Graph Analysis for the Humanities

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Graph Analysis for the Humanities

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Last edited Oct 27, 2019

Created on Oct 26, 2019

This workshop introduces humanities scholars to graph-based data modeling and analysis, presenting a series of hands-on exercises that build from introductory Neo4j concepts to practical applications. It demonstrates how to create graph data models, write Cypher queries, and render interactive visualizations in the browser. The material shows loading Berlin metro data from Wikidata via XQuery and BaseX, then visualizing those connections with Neovis.js, a JavaScript library built on Neo4j's Bolt protocol. The exercise set culminates in web development, using a Python SimpleHTTPServer to deploy graph-based websites.

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