NASA's People Graph: A Graph Database Revolution in Talent Management
2025-04-27
NASA is revolutionizing its people analytics with a groundbreaking People Graph, leveraging graph databases and large language models (LLMs). This system overcomes the limitations of traditional relational databases by connecting employees, projects, and skills in a dynamic network. Built using Memgraph and powered by Ollama LLM for skill extraction and chatbot queries, the graph allows for real-time queries on expert discovery, project similarity, and skill gap analysis via Cypher and a chatbot interface. Currently boasting 27K nodes and 230K edges, NASA plans to scale this to over 500,000 nodes and millions of edges, transforming how they manage talent and plan for future projects.
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