›Understand the GDS workflow
2.1 · Lesson

Understand the GDS workflow

Every GDSAnalysing data through the structure of its connections. Also the name of the Neo4j library that implements it. analysis follows the same basic two or three-step pattern:

  1. Project: Create an in-memory graph
  2. Run: Execute algorithms on the projectionAn in-memory copy of part of your database that graph algorithms run against. You choose which nodes and relationships it holds.
  3. Write: Store results back to the database