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By Joe Depeau, Senior Pre-Sales Consultant, Neo4j
As a graphista, I can often be found evangelising the power of the Neo4j graph database to anyone who’ll listen. Recently, I tried to explain graph databases to my pal Armstrong. The conversation went something like this: “You see, Armstrong, graph theory started in 1736. There was this chap named Leonhard Euler, and he was trying to solve the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem.... Read more →
This Week in Neo4j – Why Kettle?, Pokémons in a Graph, Influencers in the Graph Community
By Mark Needham, Developer Relations Engineer
May 18, 2019|Reading time: 3 minutes
This week Igor Rozani taught us about the pokémon universe in a fun online meetup, Andrea Santurbano showed how easy it is to produce and consume Kafka data streams in Cypher, and Tomaz Bratanic explored the Depth First Search algorithm. Elsewhere Jennifer Reif dived into the world of data import and asked why you’d use Kettle for data import, and I went extremely meta in... Read more →
Explore: apache kafka • Cypher Query Performance • depth-first search • neo4j streams • Pentaho Kettle • social network analysis • twin4j
Think About What You’re Building: 5-Minute Interview with Stephen O’Grady
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki, Editor-in-Chief, Neo4j
May 17, 2019|Reading time: 3 minutes
"Always ask why," said Stephen O'Grady, Co-Founder of Redmonk. When deciding what projects to take on, developers should consider the broader context and the implications of what they’re being asked to build. So says Stephen O’Grady from Redmonk, a developer-focused industry analyst firm that tracks, among other things, the top 20 programming languages over time. In this week's... Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • artificial intelligence • deep learning • graph database • graph technology • Hillary Mason • IoT • machine learning • neo4j • Stephen O'Grady
Graph Technology to Fight Terrorist Threats
By Frederick Kagan & Sébastien Heymann, Directory of Critical Threats Project of AEI & CEO of Linkurious
May 15, 2019|Reading time: 9 minutes
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Frederick Kagan and Sébastien Heymann at GraphConnect New York in October 2018. Presentation Summary The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is an independently-funded nonprofit that uses unclassified information to understand ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Europe to produce forecasts and policy recommendations. Like the... Read more →
Explore: Critical Threats Project • geospatial analysis • graph analysis • graph intelligence platform • graph visualization • graphconnect • real-time network visualization • terrorist threat • threat detection
Save the Date for a Three-Day, Super-Powered GraphConnect 2020 Experience
By Ryan Boyd, Director of Developer Relations @ Neo4j
May 14, 2019|Reading time: 2 minutes
At GraphConnect last year, we brought together developers and business leaders from around the world into a single event with 48 sessions, an executive summit, an ecosystem summit and 13 different training classes. We also had very notable keynote presenters, including Hilary Mason (Cloudera Fast Forward Labs) and Stephen O'Grady (Redmonk). It was spectacular to see how much the community... Read more →
Explore: ai • graph technology • graphconnect • GraphTour • ML • Neo4j Community • Neo4j Online Developer Summit • streaming data
Graphs in Government: How In-Q-Tel Brings Tech Innovation to Intelligence Agencies
By Jason Zagalsky, Federal Account Manager, Neo4j
May 13, 2019|Reading time: 3 minutes
The use cases for a graph database in government are endless. Graphs are versatile and dynamic. They are the key to solving the challenges you face in fulfilling your mission. Using real-world government use cases, this blog series explains how graphs solve a broad range of complex problems that can’t be solved in any other way. Last week, we took you through a case study with the... Read more →
Explore: government • graph database • In-Q-Tel • intelligence agencies • neo4j • rdbms • relational database • startups • tech innovation • VCs
This Week in Neo4j – Explore public contracting data with Neo4j, RDBMS to Graph Page Overhaul, Filtering Connected Dynamic Forms, Graph-Based Real Time Inventory
By Mark Needham
May 11, 2019|Reading time: 3 minutes
This week we learn how to use graphs for Real Time Inventory and Topology for Network Automation, exploring public contracting data, and filtering connected dynamic forms. There’s also an overhaul to the RDBMS to Graph page and a crash course in how to choose unique identifiers for nodes when using Neo4j-OGM and Spring Data Neo4j. Featured Community Member: Francesca... Read more →
Explore: APOC • data journalist • Max De Marzi • neo4j ogm • Network Inventory • rdbms • spring data neo4j • twin4j