The 5-Minute Interview: Dan Murphy, Senior Metadata DevOps at the Financial Times
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 1, 2016 4 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I sat down with Dan Murphy, the Senior Developer for Semantic Metadata and DevOps at the Financial Times. I chatted with Dan at GraphConnect Europe after his great presentation on How Go and Neo4j enabled… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • bolt • DevOps • Financial Times • go • graphconnect • metadata • RDF triple store • Recommendation Engine • semantic metadata
How the ICIJ Used Neo4j to Unravel the Panama Papers
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 12, 2016 16 mins read
Editor’s note: The recently revealed Paradise Papers investigation used Neo4j as a key technology to find connections in leaked data. In this blog post from last year, the ICIJ’s Mar Cabra talks about the similar investigation into the Panama Papers… Read more →
Keywords: Apache Tika • Blacklight • graph visualization • icij • Linkurious • OCR • optical character recognition • Panama Papers • Solr • Tesseract
Your Technical Documentation Should Be a Graph: Here’s Why
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 25, 2016 5 mins read
TL;DR: This blog post is mainly about how technical documentation should ideally be structured: as a graph (not to be confused with a chart). As a software developer and author I have had the chance (and also the obligation) to… Read more →
Keywords: github • graph • graphconnect • Knowledge Graph • natural language processing • nlp • software developer • stack overflow • Structr • technical documentation
Analyzing the Panama Papers with Neo4j: Data Models, Queries & More
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 8, 2016 10 mins read
As the world has seen, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has exposed highly connected networks of offshore tax structures used by the world’s richest elites. These structures were uncovered from leaked financial documents and were analyzed by the… Read more →
Keywords: Azerbaijan • cypher • data model • document analysis • graph model • icij • journalism • Linkurious • neo4j • Panama Papers
Content Is Still King: How We Use Neo4j at Packt Publishing
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
8 mins read
‘Content is King,’ Bill Gates famously said twenty years ago, making his prediction that soon ‘anyone with a PC and a modem can publish whatever content they can create’. As time has gone by, this has only become more true.… Read more →
Keywords: collaborative filtering • content marketing • cypher • metadata • Packt Publishing • product recommendations • Recommendation Engine • Stack Exchange API • stack overflow • tf-idf
The Internet of Things Is a Graph and Graphs Are IoT
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 5, 2016 4 mins read
Note: Andy Mulholland will be one of the keynote speakers at GraphConnect Europe. Get your ticket to hear Andy’s presentation on 26 April 2016. The usual reaction to a title like this is one of complete incomprehension. This would seem… Read more →
Keywords: building management • complex event processing • event hub • Graph Databases • graphconnect • Internet of Things • IoT • smart web • Uber
Conference Notes <3 Paper by FiftyThree
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 20, 2015 3 mins read
Quick — are you taking notes? The speaker just made a great point. Did you write it down? That slide just showed a perfect summary. Did you take a photo? You now realize what your data model should be. Can… Read more →
Keywords: conference notes • data modeling • fiftythree • graph database • graphconnect • ipad • iphone app • neo4j • paper • pencil
How the ICIJ Unraveled HSBC Fraud Using Neo4j & Linkurious
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 19, 2015 5 mins read
The world of offshore finance is a murky one. In order to conceal the private lives and fortunes of the world’s most rich and powerful, ownership of cash and assets are deliberately obscured. It’s a world driven by vast networks… Read more →
Keywords: data analysis • data journalism • graph database • HSBC • icij • Linkurious • neo4j • offshore leaks • swiss banking • swiss leaks
Making a Difference: The Public Neo4j-Users Slack Group
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 5, 2015 4 mins read
Update We are moving our Neo4j Community Support Forum to a new place as we have outgrown Slack. Thank you all for your help and support there. Now join us on community.neo4j.com for a better experience Making a Difference: The… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • go • java • neo4j • PHP • python • r • ruby • slack • stackoverflow
Social Networks in the Database: Using a Graph Database
By Neo4j Staff
September 15, 2009 11 mins read
Recently Lorenzo Alberton gave a talk on Trees In The Database where he showed the most-used approaches to storing trees in a relational database. Now he has moved on to an even more interesting topic with his article Graphs in… Read more →
Keywords: collaborative filtering • Graph Algorithm • graph database • linkedin • neo4j • recommendation systems • relational database • social network • sql • transitive closure