Joy Chao is a graphista in the Neo4j community.
She’s currently the Director of Marketing for the Los Angeles Gladiators. In the past, she’s served on a staff wellness program with Pepperdine Human Resources and interned with the Microenterprise Program, an entrepreneurial program for the formerly homeless.
Joy loves learning and new experiences. Her personal projects include achieving a handstand and beginning the art of quilling.
It's a common figure of speech: "Jack of all trades, master of none." The heart behind the phrase is that if you're trying to be good at everything, you normally end up being sort of mediocre at a large number of things and not being good at any one thing in particular. Software, technology and... read more
When he wasn't busy shelving books, collecting overdue fines and shushing children (we can only presume) in the library at the House of Wisdom, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was also keeping up a few other side projects: inventing algebra, popularizing the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in the West,... read more
There's a common one-liner, "I hate math...but I love counting money." Except for total and complete nerds, a lot of people didn't like mathematics while growing up. In fact, of all school subjects, it's the most consistently derided in pop culture (which is the measure of all things, we're... read more
The evolution of programming languages has grown in parallel with the evolution of computing itself, with new languages being created with each new advance and paradigm shift. After all, if language shapes how we view reality, then changes in computing (i.e., thinking) will necessitate a... read more
Last semester, my professor told us to “pick an internship based on its quality and what you’ll learn, not on your assumed career path.” That seemed like great advice for me, especially since I hadn’t yet decided on which field I would like to enter. Having had a wide variety of jobs... read more