Alexander is a Senior Developer Marketing Manager at Neo4j. He is passionate about graphs and loves observing the positive resonance and learning about the multitude of innovative graph applications. New technologies (hardware and software) have been the focus of his entire career.
On October 26, several thousand graphistas worldwide came together at NODES 2023 to learn from one another and more than 90 graph experts. Over the 20 hours of NODES 2023, we accumulated a whopping 492 days of watch time. Thank you all for participating and once again making NODES a friendly,... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! This week, we bid farewell to Py2Neo, visualise DateTime Data, explore a new Algorithm for Data Clusters and have an overview of Neo4j and Graph Databases. Remember our GenAI Stack together with... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! This week, we have advanced ingestion strategies for RAG applications, new ways of handling constraints with Cypher, our podcast summarises the highlights of NODES 2023 and we look at an open source... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! This week, we take a hands-on approach to Neo4j Vector Search and LangChain, use Embeddings for improved Image Retrieval, look at some resources for GIS Plugin Building and watch a tutorial on Document... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! How cool was NODES2023? I know I am still thrilled about the many sessions and many interactions with lots of you throughout the day. I hope you had a great day as well and if you missed it: Don't worry,... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! This is it! NODES 2023 is finally happening this Thursday. 🫵 Do you have signed up already? Running live across time zones around the globe, NODES is featuring over 100 sessions in tracks... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! Wow, what a week! At DockerCon last week, Neo4j announced the formation of a GenAI Stack together with LangChain, Ollama and Docker. For a more hands-on approach, please read our blog below. There is... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! By now, I wonder when we will have the first week without an article on Vectors or ChatGPT (this edition featuring both). We also celebrate 20 episodes of Going Meta and go hands-on in building a smart... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! Once again, we are looking at the combination of Vector Search, OpenAI, LangChain and Neo4j, but this issue also brings you interesting posts on Cypher Improvements since Neo4j 5, we are getting hands-on... read more
20 Episodes of Going Meta – A RecapIn this live-stream series, Jesús Barrasa and I explored the many aspects of Semantics, Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs. Inadvertently, a few themes emerged, and we thought talking about them would help you find your way in the already sizeable collection... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! This episode features an interesting GitHub Repository on how to work with Bill of Material for Software, we look at Graph Data Modeling and (of course) more Vector Search and how LLMs can kickstart... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! This week's edition is still under the impression from the recent Vector Search Annoucements with articles on Voice Assistants and LangChain Integration. NODES 2023 is approaching with big strides... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! Hope you didn't miss the exciting news about Vector Search last week! Sticking with the topic, this week continues with lots of interesting articles around Chatbots, LLMs and (of course) Vectors.... read more
Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! I hope summer is treating you well (if you live in the northern hemisphere, that is) 🏖️ This week, we announced a milestone feature for Neo4j: Native Vector Search. It provides a simple... read more
Sebastian Lobentanzer joined me to talk about how to make life easier for biotech experts and researchers by making the creation of knowledge graphs from various sources easier.To watch the full episode, scroll to the end of this blog post.BioCypher OverviewThe Creation of Knowledge... read more
Friedrich Lindenberg joined me to talk about investigative journalism and showcase his project OpenSanctions which tracks sanctions and financial restrictions on assets and individuals.To watch the full episode, scroll to the end of this blog post.OpenSanctions page for Vladimir PutinOn... read more
The team from ARSINOE joined me to present their Knowledge Graph, which tracks information related to the achievement of targets defined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at national and regional levels.To watch the full episode scroll to the end of this summary... read more
Tom Asel from Tangible Concepts joined me recently to discuss the concept of Wardley Maps: What they are, where they are used, and why they (as well as maps in general) are different from graphs. In a demo, Tom demonstrated how Wardley Maps can be analyzed in Neo4j to find the hidden knowledge in... read more
For many, livestreaming equals video games on Twitch, but there is so much more going on than just Let's Plays. This week is filled with a few episodes from our great community so you can watch graph projects being created in front of your eyes. Check them out below! In addition to the... read more
We are very excited to announce that GraphConnect will be back this year in June! Currently we have opened the Call for Papers and encourage you all to submit - no matter what graph topic is currently top of your mind, we want to hear from you! Are you a Neo4j expert who wants to do more... read more
This first real Twin4j of 2022 again covers a wide range of topics we think will be interesting to you. Are you wondering what's the most fun way to get your data in Neo4j? If you ask Samuel Longley, he will tell you ETL is the way to go and has started a blog series to prove his point.... read more
Whether you're already in full swing working on your first project in 2022 or are just getting started, we have a few reading recommendations from the Neo4j blog sphere of 2021. In this second round of highlights we go into the Pandora Papers, some Knowledge Graphs, and Graph Data... read more
Do you remember the Pandora Papers - the latest leak from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)? As you know, the ICIJ uses Neo4j to find the hidden connections in the vast numbers of files and data. They have now made the first data-release of that leak available... read more
We have some exciting news to share with you! Over the past weeks and months we have been planning to move our online chat from Slack over to Discord. The Discord platform allows us to create a dedicated space for the Neo4j Community to hang out, text, (video) chat, or stream. Today we are... read more