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Traversing Relationships in the 2026 World Cup
Traverse the full 2026 World Cup in Neo4j to build group tables, a golden-boot ranking, and the champions' path, using multi-hop Cypher, WITH pipelines, and aggregation.
Loading 2026 World Cup Data with Cypher
Load all 104 matches and every goal of the 2026 World Cup from open data into AuraDB, using constraints and idempotent Cypher you can re-run confidently.
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Traverse the full 2026 World Cup in Neo4j to build group tables, a golden-boot ranking, and the champions' path, using multi-hop Cypher, WITH pipelines, and aggregation.
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Load all 104 matches and every goal of the 2026 World Cup from open data into AuraDB, using constraints and idempotent Cypher you can re-run confidently.
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When Dashboards first became available in Aura, I started to move my reporting away from custom tools. Here are the five cards I use the most, and a Cypher statement behind them.
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Writing Cypher Queries That Don't Lose Your Data
The query trap that hides your newest data, and the query shape that brings it back.
SQL to Cypher - 10 Queries You Already Know
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Load the 48 teams of the 2026 World Cup into a free AuraDB instance and query them back, learning the core of Cypher from first principles.
Six Degrees of Ayrton Senna: Learn Neo4j by Connecting 75 Years of Formula 1
Learn Neo4j and graph databases by building an F1 teammate network from real Formula 1 data and using Cypher to connect Max Verstappen to Juan Manuel Fangio.
RAG vs GraphRAG - Two Retrievers, One Question
Same movie question, two retrievers, two answers. See how GraphRAG beats plain vector RAG on Neo4j's recommendations dataset, then learn to build it.
EPIC: The Musical vs Nolan's The Odyssey - One Story, Visualised as a Graph
How does Christopher Nolan's film compare to EPIC: The Musical? I mapped every plot thread and character of Homer's poem in a graph database to find out.
TIL: Cypher has a format() function for dates and times
A deprecation warning taught me that Cypher now formats dates, times, and durations natively. No APOC required.