A hands-on walkthrough of using Neo4j Graph Analytics for Snowflake to analyze Grand Sumo wrestling data. Covers installing the Neo4j Graph Analytics app from the Snowflake Marketplace, setting up permissions, preparing CSV data as Snowflake tables, and running the Louvain Community Detection algorithm on bout data from the Kyushu Basho 2025. The results show that the algorithm successfully infers rikishi rank groupings purely from bout pairing relationships, without any explicit rank data provided.
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Get Ben Squire’s stories in your inboxThe Data — Makuuchi of Haru Basho 2026The Platform — SnowflakeThe Algorithm — Louvain Community DetectionThe Setup — Getting StartedPutting it all togetherThe Results — Inference from RelationshipsConclusionSort: