Data Profiling: A Holistic View of Data using Neo4j
Blog post from Neo4j
The text discusses data profiling in the context of graph databases, specifically Neo4j. Data profiling is a widely used methodology to analyze the structure, contents, and metadata of a data source. In a graph database like Neo4j, data profiling helps understand anomalies, assess data quality, and discover enterprise metadata. The article provides practical techniques using Cypher, Neo4j's query language, to perform data profiling on the Stack Overflow Questions dataset. It covers various aspects such as database schema analysis, node analysis, relationship analysis, and uses of the APOC library for advanced graph analysis. The text highlights the benefits of storing data in a graph database, enabling powerful analysis of relationships and unearthed connections among individual data elements.