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Recommendations
In this chapter, we will start to look at how we can use the Neo4j graph database
foraveryspeciicusecase.Allthediscussionssofarhaveledustothisdiscussion,
where we really want to zoom in on how one would practically use a database such
asNeo4jforaveryspeciicusecase.Wewilllookatthefollowingtopics:
• Modeling product relationships as a graph
• Using relationships to suggest recommendations
• Using relationships to detect fraud
Recommender systems dissected
We will take a look at so-called recommender systems in this chapter. Such systems,
broadly speaking, consist of two elementary parts:
• A pattern discovery system: This is the systemthatsomehowiguresout
what would be a useful recommendation for a particular target group.
This discovery can be done in many different ways, but in general we
see three ways to do so:
