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How to link two GraphAcademy accounts

Signed up twice? Link your GraphAcademy accounts so enrolments and progress from both show up under either login. Step-by-step, with screenshots.

Adam CowleyAdam CowleySep 30, 2026 — 4 min read
MCP

Getting started with the GraphAcademy MCP server

Connect Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code to the GraphAcademy MCP server and take courses, verify challenges, and generate Neo4j code from your editor.

Adam CowleyAdam CowleySep 23, 2026 — 4 min read
Aura

From Neo4j Graph to Interactive Hive Plot: Modeling Graph Data for d3.js

The four modeling decisions behind an interactive d3.js hive plot of The Odyssey.

Kemi Elizabeth OjogbedeKemi Elizabeth OjogbedeSep 4, 2026 — 10 min read

Traversing Relationships in the 2026 World Cup

Traverse the full 2026 World Cup in Neo4j to build group tables, a golden-boot ranking, and the champions' path, using multi-hop Cypher, WITH pipelines, and aggregation.

Alfred OtiAlfred OtiAug 26, 2026 — 10 min read

Loading 2026 World Cup Data with Cypher

Load all 104 matches and every goal of the 2026 World Cup from open data into AuraDB, using constraints and idempotent Cypher you can re-run confidently.

Alfred OtiAlfred OtiAug 25, 2026 — 10 min read
Aura

My five favorite cards in Aura Dashboards

When Dashboards first became available in Aura, I started to move my reporting away from custom tools. Here are the five cards I use the most, and a Cypher statement behind them.

Adam CowleyAdam CowleyAug 24, 2026 — 5 min read

Contribute to the Neo4j Practitioner Community

Graph Academy is opening its platform to community contributors. Share your tutorials, case studies and screencasts with 300,000+ developers worldwide.

GraphAcademy TeamGraphAcademy TeamAug 12, 2026 — 5 min read
Cypher

Writing Cypher Queries That Don't Lose Your Data

The query trap that hides your newest data, and the query shape that brings it back.

Kemi Elizabeth OjogbedeKemi Elizabeth OjogbedeJul 29, 2026 — 9 min read
Cypher

SQL to Cypher - 10 Queries You Already Know

You already know how to write these queries. This article shows you what they look like when the joins go away.

Jeremy MorganJeremy MorganJul 29, 2026 — 16 min read

Writing and Reading the 2026 World Cup Data with Cypher

Load the 48 teams of the 2026 World Cup into a free AuraDB instance and query them back, learning the core of Cypher from first principles.

Alfred OtiAlfred OtiJul 28, 2026 — 9 min read

Six Degrees of Ayrton Senna: Learn Neo4j by Connecting 75 Years of Formula 1

Learn Neo4j and graph databases by building an F1 teammate network from real Formula 1 data and using Cypher to connect Max Verstappen to Juan Manuel Fangio.

Jeremy MorganJeremy MorganJul 23, 2026 — 15 min read
GenAI

RAG vs GraphRAG - Two Retrievers, One Question

Same movie question, two retrievers, two answers. See how GraphRAG beats plain vector RAG on Neo4j's recommendations dataset, then learn to build it.

Martin O'HanlonMartin O'HanlonJul 22, 2026 — 4 min read