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Discover AuraDB Free: Week 32  –  Marvel API Data

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Michael Hunger
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1,990
Language
English
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Summary

The author of the text is Head of Product Innovation & Developer Strategy at Neo4j. They revisit the Marvel Data API, which they previously explored in a series with their colleague Jennifer Reif, and use it to create a new Neo4j AuraDB Free instance to store data from the API. The data model centers around the `ComicIssue` node, connected to other nodes like `Creator`, `Character`, `Story`, `Event`, and `Series`. They load the characters by iterating over their names, fetching comics details for each character, and creating nodes and relationships to connect them. The author uses Neo4j Browser, Explore (Bloom), and GraphQL API to visualize and query the data. They also generate an augmented GraphQL schema using the Neo4j GraphQL Toolbox.