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Date Published
Author
Bex Jones
Word count
1755
Language
English
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None

Summary

The Titanic passenger manifest records a wealth of information about passengers, including their relationships with each other. By leveraging graph database technology and Cypher queries, researchers can extract complex familial relationships from the data, asking questions such as "What proportion of surviving women were single or married?" or "Did those who survived have siblings aboard?" The graph allows for flexible querying, enabling the analysis of multiple properties of individuals, including their age, ticket number, and relationship categories. These queries reveal insights into survivorship rates, with children being more likely to survive than adults, and men having lower survival chances than women without children. The study highlights the power of graph databases in extracting complex relationships from relational data, enabling new lines of inquiry into historical events.