Neo4j - Create relationship within label on property - neo4j

Question

I'm importing a dataset of the following structure into Neo4j:
| teacher | student | period |
|:---------------:|---------|:------:|
| Mr. Smith | Michael | 1 |
| Mrs. Oliver | Michael | 2 |
| Mrs. Roth | Michael | 3 |
| Mrs. Oliver | Michael | 4 |
| Mrs. Oliver | Susan | 1 |
| Mrs. Roth | Susan | 2 |
My goal is to create a graph where a teacher "sends" students from one period to the next, showing the flow of students between teachers. The above graph for instance, would look like this:
Using words, my logic looks like this:
Generate a unique node for every teacher
For each student, create a relationship connecting the earliest period to the next earliest period, until the latest period is reached.
My code so far completes the first step:
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM 'file:///neo_sample.csv' AS row // loads local file
MERGE(a:teacher {teacher: row.teacher}) // used merge instead of create to produce unique teacher nodes.

Answer 1

Here is how you can produce your illustrated graph.
Assuming your CSV file looks like this:
teacher;student;period
Mr. Smith;Michael;1
Mrs. Oliver;Michael;2
Mrs. Roth;Michael;3
Mrs. Oliver;Michael;4
Mrs. Oliver;Susan;1
Mrs. Roth;Susan;2
then this query should work:
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM 'file:///neo_sample.csv' AS row FIELDTERMINATOR ';'
WITH row.teacher AS t, row.student AS s, row.period AS p
ORDER BY p
WITH s, COLLECT({t:t, p:p}) AS data
FOREACH(i IN RANGE(0, SIZE(data)-2) |
MERGE(a:Teacher {name: data[i].t})
MERGE(b:Teacher {name: data[i+1].t})
MERGE (a)-[:SENDS {student: s, period: data[i].p}]->(b)
)