This Week in Neo4j – 28 October 2017

This week we have two featured community members: Ray Bernard and Jennifer Webb, co-founders of Suprfanz, a tool that uses data science techniques and graph theory with Neo4j to generate live event attendance from social media platforms, email, and SMS.

Ray and Jennifer were at GraphConnect NYC 2017 this week and created a opens in new tabGraph Karaoke machine which was a big hit in the Developer Zone.

We’ve previously featured their talk opens in new tabData Science in Practice: Using the Facebook API and Neo4J to Drive Real World Attendance to Events in opens in new tab#twin4j, a talk they’ll also be giving at the opens in new tabStrata Data Conference on March 6th 2018.

On behalf of the Neo4j community and especially the GraphConnect attendees thanks for all your work Ray and Jen!

On Tuesday we hosted the latest version of the GraphConnect conference, this time in New York City. Well over 1,000 people got to hear Neo4j CEO opens in new tabEmil Eifrem opens in new tabannounce the graph platform which adds analytics, data import, and visualisation on top of the database.

You can see Emil’s keynote below:

In the evening Neo4j Chief Scientist opens in new tabDr Jim Webber explained opens in new tabthe power of graph native and opens in new tabAlistair Jones showed how Neo4j Causal Clustering can be used to handle opens in new tabHTAP workloads.

You can see Jim’s keynote below:

This week saw the opens in new tabrelease of Neo4j 3.3, which is the centre piece of The Neo4j Graph Platform, Neo4j 3.3 focuses on empowering users to work with native graphs at scale more effectively and faster.

You can download Neo4j 3.3 from opens in new tabthe normal place. This is the first release of the Neo4j Desktop which makes it even easier to get up and running so give it a try and let us know how you get on by sending an email to devrel@neo4j.com.

We also released opens in new taba new version of graph algorithms which now has support for huge graphs as well as the TriangleCounting/Triangle-Coefficients and Louvain Clustering algorithms.

Finally there are new goodies to play with in the opens in new tabAPOC fall release. This release sees lots of new features including a procedure to access other databases via Bolt and support for multi value JSON sources.

What’s happening next week in the world of graph databases?

My favourite tweet this week was by opens in new tabSuprfanz:

Don’t forget to RT if you liked it too.

That’s all for this week. Have a great weekend!

Cheers, Mark