Kenny Bastani is a passionate technology evangelist and and open source software advocate in Silicon Valley. As an enterprise software consultant he has applied a diverse set of skills needed for projects requiring a full stack web developer in agile mode.
As a passionate advocate for the popular graph database Neo4j, Kenny has supported developers from globally recognized companies who have inserted the NoSQL database inside their technology stack. As a passionate blogger and open source contributor, Kenny engages a community of passionate developers who are looking to take advantage of newer graph processing techniques to analyze data.
I've received a lot of interest since announcing Neo4j Mazerunner. People from around the world have reached out to me and are excited about the possibilities of using Apache Spark and Neo4j together. From authors who are writing new books about big data to PhD researchers who need it to... read more
Originally posted on my blog. Using Apache Spark and Neo4j for Big Data Graph Analytics As engineers, when we think about how to solve big data problems, evaluating technologies becomes a choice between scalable and not scalable. Ideally we choose the technologies that can scale to a variety of... read more
This post was originally published on Kenny Bastani's blog. Sentiment analysis uses natural language processing to extract features of a text that relate to subjective information found in source materials. Movie Review Sentiment Analysis A movie review website allows users to submit... read more
This post was written by Kenny Bastani, Developer Evangelist at Neo Technology. Kenny's original article and past work can be found on his blog. Using a Graph Database for Deep Learning Text Classification Graphify is a Neo4j unmanaged extension that provides plug and play natural language... read more
(Neo4j)-→(OSCON)-→(Portland) During the last week of July, the Neo4j team had a great time at the Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, OR. We met old friends and made new ones, had great discussions about Open-Source, NoSQL databases, interesting graph use-cases, data modeling,... read more
OSCON Twitter Graph As a part of Neo4j’s community engagement around OSCON, we wanted to look at the social media activity of the attendees on Twitter. Working with the Twitter Search API and searching for mentions of “OSCON”, we wanted to create a graph of Users, Tweets, Hashtags and shared... read more
There are many ways to store and manage data within a Neo4j graph database. When Neo4j 2.0 launched late last year we had an entirely new browser experience for interacting with graphs. The graph visualization from the return results of Cypher queries were at the core of the user experience... read more
