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This Week in Neo4j – 9 December 2017

Developer Relations Engineer

December 9, 2017

3 min read

Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days.

Featured Community Member: Mike Morley

This week’s featured community member is opens in new tabMike Morley, President at Menome Technologies Inc, a Calgary based organisation whose mission is to help organisations fully realize the value of their data.

Mike Morley – This Week’s Featured Community Member

Mike has been part of the Neo4j community for the last couple of years and founded Menome Technologies, a company that has Neo4j at the core of its business.

Mike blogs regularly about opens in new tabhis experiences with graph databases and organises the opens in new tabCalgary Neo4j meetup.

In this week’s online meetup Mike, Mark Barley, and Konrad Aust showed us opens in new tabthe tools they’ve been building to help enterprises break down data silos and capture critical knowledge.

On behalf of the Neo4j community thanks for all your work Mike!

ICIJ release Paradise Papers version of Neo4j Database

Late last week The ICIJ released an opens in new tabICIJ version of Neo4j Desktop which includes the Paradise Papers and the other Offshore Leaks graph data.

Neo4j Desktop for ICIJ

On the back of that my colleague opens in new tabGerrit Meier has created opens in new tabsdn-paradise – a Spring Data Neo4j project that allows you to analyse the opens in new tabParadise Papers.

Graph Powered Search with Elastic and Neo4j

opens in new tabMichael Hunger, opens in new tabChristophe Willemsen, and opens in new tabAlessandro Negro have created a opens in new tabDZone Graph Powered Search Refcard .

Graph-Powered Search: Neo4j & Elasticsearch

It includes code and examples for using Elasticsearch to enable full-text search and Neo4j to power graph-aided search.

Fraudsters, Terrorists, Knowledge Graphs, Jim Webber Interview

opens in new tabGeorg Heiler opens in new tabshows how to identify hidden fraudsters and terrorists using Neo4j by looking at their distance from known people. Georg’s code is also available as a opens in new tabJupyter notebook.
Rolf Håvard Blindheim’s django-chemtrails uses Neo4j to help determine if a user has permissions to perform some action on an object, based on the relationship between entities.
Chun Li has created opens in new tabFindMyCar, a Flask application on top of a used cars knowledge graph. Chun also opens in new tabposted a video that explains how to use the system and shows the Cypher queries behind the application.
Silicon Angle have an interview with my colleague opens in new tabDr Jim Webber and Comcast’s Director of Engineering for IoT, Mark Hashimoto – opens in new tabGraph databases are hot, but can they break relational’s grip?. They talk about the use cases for which graphs are a good fit and the performance improvements they give over relational databases for certain workloads.

Cyber threat intelligence

We’ve previously covered the opens in new tabuse of Neo4j for security and threat detection and this week I came across a tool in that ecosystem called opens in new tabStixToNeoDB.

STIX – Sharing threat intelligence just got a lot easier

Structured Threat Information Expression (opens in new tabSTIX) is a language and serialization format used to exchange cyber threat intelligence.

StixToNeoDB loads STIX objects and relations from JSON and zip files into Neo4j.

Tweet of the Week

My favourite tweet this week was by opens in new tabCharlene Tay:

Thanks! Yes, we really like Neo4j! Great work on the product We’ve created our graph-based recommendation system and have had some good results so far.
— Charlene Tay (@charrtay) December 5, 2017