Day 55 of 100daysofnetworks
Cypher Queries, Graph Database Continuation, Practical Learning
Hi Everyone!
A lot has happened since the last article, but things are stabilizing, so I feel very good. Most of my time this week has been spent on setting up Verdant Intelligence (my new company) and especially its first brand GrooveSeeker, an “entertainment intelligence” platform that I am creating.
I’ve created a new blog for GrooveSeeker. If you subscribe, you can read about how I am creating this brand from scratch, showing some of the work involved. There is a lot of overlap between that blog and this blog, as this blog shows HOW I do the work and that blog shows the results of the work. So, please hop on over there and subscribe for free! Don’t worry about paid subscriptions. Those are for platform usage and data access. You can read for free.
I’ve written several short articles for that blog.
There’s only one of me, so if I’m writing there, I’m typically not writing here. But today, I’ve done both! That’s not sustainable, though, so I will occasionally do data analysis for GrooveSeeker on this blog, and you can get an idea of how I do things that way.
Please do subscribe to GrooveSeeker, and please check out the articles. They have been a lot of fun to write!
Here are a few fun articles to read!
But yesterday, I did some data enrichment work, and I wrote about it today. This is easily my favorite article out of all of them, and I hope you will give it a read and subscribe!
We are currently on the third iteration of GrooveSeeker, and I noticed this morning that we are even seeing events for ANIMALS in the data. This is the AI-enriched data from one event I saw this morning.
Doggie Dive
Performers:
Not provided in source.
Date & Time:
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Price:
Not provided in source.
Venue:
Ole Hanson Beach Club
Location:
San Clemente
Contact Information:
Not provided in source.
Description:
The Doggie Dive event allows dogs to swim in the heated pool at Ole Hanson Beach Club before it closes for winter maintenance. Dogs and their owners enjoy splashes, prizes, treats, and even a pie-eating contest.
Genres:
Not provided in source.
Source URL:
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/11/22/fun-is-unleashed-at-san-clementes-annual-doggie-pool-party/And as I was reading, I cracked up so hard when I saw the URL. Especially this part of the URL: “doggie-pool-party”.
Then it hit me, GrooveSeeker has made some cool progress since 1999.
GrooveSeeker 1 (gsv1): Human Events (Me Driven: Techno/Trance/House)
GrooveSeeker 2 (gsv2): Human Events (Community Driven: More Genres)
GrooveSeeker 3 (gsv3): Human Events and Dog Pool Parties (AI Driven: All Types)
I was laughing at this a lot last night, and it was Thanksgiving, so I just had fun with it. I kept making AI images and laughing. I wanted to get an image of a Golden Retriever chilling in an inner tube at a pool party, but I lost focus and generated these instead.
If you’re gonna have a pool party, you might as well hire a DJ!
Back to Graph and Networks
So, I have been very, very busy with my new company and with GrooveSeeker, and I have been having a great time with both. I will talk more about both as we continue, I’m sure.
For the last several articles, we have been talking about Cognee, Knowledge Graphs, Neo4j, and Cypher (Graph Database Query Language). Lately, we have been learning more about Cypher, as that gives us the skill to actually explore our graph databases.
In the last couple articles, we discussed how to find data, and then how to filter it. I had set up a several-day series for learning these queries, but I think I over-planned.
Here are the links. Day 52 will get you started with Cypher, and Day 54 will help you zoom in on what you are looking for.
There is a ton more you can do with Cypher than looking for things and filtering, and that’s true of any database. But I don’t want to spend the next several dozen days only talking about Cypher. I want to build things using Cypher, and learn as we go.
So, we’re going to pivot a bit, from theory to practice. We are going to learn to BUILD with graph databases, not just look at them. So, if you are not a subscriber, please subscribe.
And please consider a paying subscription, as it helps pay for infrastructure, and I spend a lot of time on research before I even get to the writing. At this moment, less than 1% of my subscribers are paying subscribers. I would be a lot more encouraged to write if we could get that to 5%.
Excellent Book
I have a few books on Neo4j, but I have been learning from this book. I do recommend you pick it up. It’s been very helpful to me.
If you know of other good books for learning Cypher or Neo4j, please put them in the comments so that we all learn! And if you are an author of a book on Graph or Graph Databases, please reach out to me and I’ll give it a read and review!
But this book:
This book is very good. This book will help you understand Cypher very quickly.
What’s the Plan?
Right now, I have to be agile, as I am in a time of uncertainty. I don’t have a job. I decided to go all in on starting and running my company. I have been working towards it since August, and I launched it two weeks ago.
But I wasn’t expecting to be unemployed again, and I wasn’t expecting to create a company so soon, so I have a lot to do.
In terms of this blog, there will be a few changes:
We’re moving on from learning Cypher to using Cypher. There is no better way to learn something than to use it to solve problems.
We’re going to build Knowledge Graphs from scratch, using various datasets from #100daysofnetworks.
We’re going to do a lot more with and talk more about Artificial Intelligence.
I need to make this pivot, because I have a lot to do. I need to keep pushing forward, and this enables me to learn while I do, instead of feeling stuck from learning and then not immediately using.
I have a lot to think about and do, so please check out my previous articles, and please do subscribe. It really helps me a lot. It encourages me to keep writing.
All of This Makes Me Happy
Life has been a bit chaotic this year, but all of this does make me happy. I have loved GrooveSeeker since 1999. I think about the original communities all the time. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you probably know that I am really into music. GrooveSeeker has given me a way to express myself musically.
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