This Week in Neo4j – NBC Russian Twitter Trolls, Spring Boot, GRAND stack
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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.
This week we have a sandbox to play around with NBC’s Russian Twitter Trolls dataset, modelling Pentaho ETL jobs and flights with Neo4j, a Python Cypher Querybuilder, Spring Boot, and more.
Featured Community Member: Gábor Szárnyas
This week’s featured community member is opens in new tabGábor Szárnyas, Research assistant at Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Gábor Szárnyas – This Week’s Featured Community Member
Gábor has been part of the Neo4j community for several years and is currently working on a PhD which contains several graph related topics. He’s researching how to incrementally query graphs and benchmark such an incremental graph query engine as well as analysing multiplex networks. He opens in new tabfeatured on the Graphistania podcast in February 2017 where he explained this in more detail.
Gábor is an active participant in the openCypher community and presented opens in new tabingraph: Live Queries on Graphs at GraphConnect Europe 2017. You can also find the opens in new tabslides from the talk. More recently Gábor showed how to opens in new tabcompile openCypher graph queries with Spark Catalyst and presented opens in new tabgraph-based source code analysis at FOSDEM 2018.
On behalf of the openCypher and Neo4j communities, thanks for all your work Gábor!
Pick of the week: NBC’s Russian Troll Tweets Database
This week NBC News opens in new tabpublicly released a database of deleted Tweets from their investigation into how Russian Twitter Trolls may have influenced the 2016 US election.
They’ve also written opens in new taba couple opens in new tabof posts where they analyse the data.
opens in new tabWill Lyon has written a post showing how to opens in new tabexplore The Russian Twitter Trolls Database In Neo4j including a new Neo4j sandbox prepopulated with the dataset. You can get up and running with that in just a couple of minutes at opens in new tabneo4j.com/sandbox.
7,000 Slack Users!
This week we had our 7,000th member of the community registered on the Neo4j-Users Slack, getting questions answered and helping others with their Neo4j journey.
7,000 Users on Neo4j Slack
Since 2015 there have been just under 400,000 messages posted and around 500 active users per day. This is still the best place to get help with your Cypher query, Cluster configuration, or data import questions.
Thank you to everybody who’s helped others get up to speed with graphs and if you haven’t already joined, what are you waiting for?!
Neo4j gRaphs, Spring Boot, GRAND stack
- opens in new tabUwe Geercken has written a blog post about his experience opens in new tabusing Neo4j and Cypher to model Pentaho ETL jobs and flights. Uwe has also started working on opens in new tabneo4j-csv-processor, a Java application used for preparing data from a CSV file for the neo4j-import tool.
- opens in new tabBea Hernández opens in new tabshared the content from her talk at the Neo4j España meetup about using Neo4j with R.
- Jochen Weis released version 0.1.2 of opens in new tabfrogr, a Neo4j powered easy-to-use java framework for developing RESTful web services.
- Mark Henderson has started working on a simple query builder in Python called opens in new tabPypher. This one is in its infancy so don’t forget to give Mark some feedback if you give it a try.
- opens in new tabAdam Cowley has written a detailed tutorial showing how to opens in new tabuse Neo4j with Spring Boot.
- Paul Krill from Infoworld covered the GRAND stack – GraphQL, React, Apollo, Neo4j Database – and explained how this stack simplifies the building of data intensive applications.
- opens in new tabAmy Hodler opens in new tabinterviewed opens in new tabDr. Aaron Clauset, winner of the 2016 Erdos-Renyi Prize in Network Science. Amy and Aaron talk about Aaron’s group’s recent research as well as the general direction of network science.
Next Week
What’s happening next week in the world of graph databases?
| Date | Title | Group | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
February 19th 2017 |
Joshua Yu |
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February 20th 2017 |
Yehonathan Sharvit, Tal Shainfeld, Svetlana Yaroshevsky |
Tweet of the Week
My favourite tweet this week was by opens in new tabAndrew Lovett-Barron:
Watching a tutorial on graph databases, I am forced to ask why everything is not a graph database? What’s the catch?
— Andrew Lovett-Barron (@Readywater) February 13, 2018
Don’t forget to RT if you liked it too.
That’s all for this week. Have a great weekend!
Cheers, Mark
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