There's No Party Like A Donner Party

A hobby project to explore the relationships of the ill-fated Donner Party through the medium of a graph.

Why?

To learn myself how to use Neo4j.

Structure

All data are in the CSV files. The single CQL file pulls them all in and creates nodes and links.

For more information on loading CSV files into Neo4j, see Importing CSV Data into Neo4j.

Schema

Nodes

• Person
• Group
• Location
• State
• Event

Relationships

• (Location)-[:IS_IN]->(State)
• (Person)-[:MARRIED {ordinality: int}]->(Person)
• (Person)-[:IS_SIBLING_OF]->(Person)
• (Person)-[:IS_CHILD_OF]->(Person)
• (Person)-[:IS_IN]->(Event)
• (Person)-[:IS_IN]->(Group)
• (Person)-[:BORN_IN]->(Location)
• (Person)-[:DIED_AT]->(Location)
• (Event)-[:IS_IN]->(Location)

Database

Scripts are tested on a Neo4j v4.1 instance with cypher.lenient_create_relationship=true.

Sources

• New Light on the Donner Party by Kristin Johnson, librarian at Salt Lake Community College and historian for the Donner Party Archaeology Project.
• Wikipedia of course.