Example datasets

Neo4j offers a variety of example datasets to get started with the products. Some of them are built-in, others can be retrieved from a GitHub repository or accessed from the demo server. This page shows how to access them.

Available datasets

This list includes all available datasets, descriptions, and how to access them from different platforms.

Some datasets are not continuously maintained. Information may be outdated.

GitHub Aura Neo4j Browser Demo server Description

Movies

:guide movies

A small graph containing actors and directors that are related through the movies they have collaborated on. It includes the year when the actors, producers, and directors were born, as well as the year when the movie was released.

Northwind

:guide northwind

A graph representing a traditional retail system with products, orders, customers, suppliers, and employees.

StackOverflow

:guide stackoverflow

A graph including users, tags, and Q&A data retrieved from the website StackOverflow.

Movie recommendations

A graph example using a dataset of movie reviews for generating personalized, real-time recommendations.

Crime investigation (POLE)

A Persons Objects Locations Events example data model focused on the relationships between people, objects, locations, and events.

Healthcare analysis

An example graph using FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) datasets. It contains information on adverse event and medication error reports submitted to FDA.

Game of Thrones

:guide got

A graph based on George R. R. Martin’s series Game of Thrones. It contains information on the interaction between the characters throughout the books.

FinCEN

A graph with data from the global investigation FinCEN Files concerning money laundering.

Twitter

An example graph based on the structure of a social network, with Neo4j’s Twitter data.

BBC recipes

:guide recipes

A graph using data from BBC Good Foods. It contains information on ingredients, diet types, recipes, and author of the recipes.

UK companies

:guide ukcompanies

A graph containing information on UK company registration, land ownership, and political donation data.

Airbnb listings

:guide listings

A graph containing information on Airbnb listings, hosts, and reviews.

Football transfers

:guide football_transfers

A graph with transfers data. It includes information on players, clubs, transfers, and countries.

Neoflix

A graph with over 300 movie nodes including information on release status and date, revenue, budget, language, and synopsis.

WordNet

A graph using data from WordNet, a large lexical database of English. It groups nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept.

Panama Papers

The Paradise Papers dataset and guide from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

London public transportation network

A graph of the London public transportation network containing information on statios and tube lines.

IT management

An example graph representing a network and IT management. It contains information for dependency and root cause analysis, and more.

Built-in examples

Some example datasets can be retrieved directly from Workspace and Neo4j Browser in the form of guides. With them, you can create or import a dataset and learn how to explore it.

Neo4j Workspace

From the Aura Console, Workspace can be accessed from your Aura instance via the Open button. Once in Workspace, use the academic cap icon (icon guides) on the top right to access the interactive guides. There you find interactive guides that contain several of the available datasets and learn how to work with them.

workspace guides

Neo4j Browser

Use the command :guide to access a list of built-in interactive guides or access them directly using these previously listed commands.

browser guides

Demo server

Optionally, you can access the demo server on https://demo.neo4jlabs.com:7473 to explore a number of datasets with read-only access for public use.

The username and password are the same as the dataset name. For instance, for the recommendations dataset the username is recommendations and password is recommendations too.

Find the full list of datasets and the username/password entries to use in the available datasets table.

Database dump files

In the GitHub repository Neo4j graph examples, you find dump files for several graph example datasets, including the ones listed previously in the available datasets table.

There are several ways to load them, depending on the environment that is being used:

You can also refer to the Importing your data section to learn more ways to load a dataset to your instance, including other supported file formats.

The Neo4j version of some of the dump files may be older than your Neo4j version. In this case, you need to upgrade your database dump using the neo4j-admin database migrate command before loading it into Neo4j. Note that this command can only be run on a stopped database. For more details, see Upgrade and Migration guide → Migrate your databases.