Because graphs are extremely flexible data structures, a graph database can emulate any other kind of database.

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Implement a list-of-lists graph data structure.

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This is a graph of how much the revised data pushed up the 12 month moving average.

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But, thanks to the web, you can now create your own collection of ideas and data without all the pain of manipulating data into a plain, old chart or bar graph form.

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Now, you might be tempted to think that since each figure here is in a bar, sitting next to other bars and pointed at the top, you are looking at a bar graph, designed to help you compare data.

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Apple took notice and repurposed the messages to be used as data points for internal use, evidenced by a graph charting customer complaints about the ill-fated Internet service, MobileMe.

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With its own tab in Salesforce.com, it builds a social graph of your social and physical networks augmented with public data from Zoominfo and other sources.

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The challenge that many companies have when attempting to create a data driven culture is that the glamorous part, the chart and graph at the end of the process, is really about 10 percent or less of the work.

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Knowledge Graph will show search results in a new way, integrated with maps and other data.

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The same data may be used through SQL, NoSQL, MapReduce, or other forms such as a graph analytics.

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