Neo4j GDS Certification case studies
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The Neo4j Graph Data Science Certification is a free, online-proctored credential from Neo4j GraphAcademy aimed at graph developers and data scientists who work with the GDS library. It validates practical ability to project graphs, run algorithms, interpret results, and drive analytics workflows with Cypher. The exam is 60 minutes and 50 questions, and you need 80% or higher to pass. Question formats are multiple choice, multiple select, and hands-on Cypher written against a demo dataset, so expect to read and write queries rather than only recall definitions. The Neo4j GDS Certification case studies are 5 cases and about 3,020 words.
1Citation Influence Ranking on a Directed Citation Graph
A research analytics team runs Neo4j 5 with GDS 2.6 on a 16 GB heap and 4 CPUs. Their graph has 8.4 million :Article nodes and 31 million directed :CITES relationships; 2.1 million articles have no outgoing citations.
622 words, about 3 min2Churn Model with Target Leakage and Class Imbalance
A telecom operator has 120,000 :Customer nodes in Neo4j 5 and GDS 2.5. Only 8.1% churned in the last 12 months.
603 words, about 3 min3Memory-Constrained Community Detection for a Person Graph
A people-analytics team has 12 million :Person nodes and 48 million :KNOWS relationships with an interaction weight from 1 to 100. There are also 6 million :WORKS AT relationships to 900k :Company nodes and 2.4 million :LIVES IN relationships to 40k :City nodes.
629 words, about 3 min4Link Prediction Recommendations with Popularity Bias and Temporal Leakage
A social platform has 2.3 million :User nodes and 38 million directed :FOLLOWS relationships. The growth team wants top 10 'people you may know' per active user, refreshed weekly.
607 words, about 3 min5FastRP and KNN Product Similarity under Memory Pressure
An e-commerce team has 900k :Product nodes, 500k :Customer nodes, 14 million :VIEWED relationships, and 3.2 million :BOUGHT relationships. They want 20 similar products for 200k active products, refreshed monthly, on a 24 GB heap.
559 words, about 3 min