Social Network Simulation in Neo4j

Simulation of a social network in Switzerland:

• 2485 municipalities -[:ARE_IN]-> 139 regions -[:ARE_IN]-> 26 cantons

• 8039060 inhabitants -[:LIVE_IN]-> 2485 municipalities

• ~35% of the inhabitants are social (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_statistics)

• each social inhabitant is -[:FRIEND_OF]-> ~90 inhabitants (std. dev. 9)

• each social inhabitant is -[:INTERESTED_IN]-> ~10 activities (std. dev. 5)

Additional information

• the names of the inhabitants are generated by using the 1000 most used first names in Switzerland and the 15417 most used last names

• 50.6% of the inhabitants are women, 49.4% are men (http://bit.ly/1b7ZRwd)

• DB size: 11GB

Improvement ideas

• each social inhabitant -[:POSTED]-> ~20 updates

• ...