#GraphCast: How Graphs Are Used around the Globe
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 10, 2019 2 mins read
Check out this week’s #GraphCast, featuring graph technology users from around the world talking about how they use Neo4j to solve connected data problems.
Keywords: Adobe • Data Visualization • Global Graph Celebration Day • Graph Theory • GraphCast • Leonhard Euler • machine learning • nasa • Neo4j Bloom • Panama Papers
The Top 10 Neo4j Podcasts of 2018
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 27, 2018 4 mins read
Since March 2015, Neo4j VP Rik Van Bruggen has been hosting the Graphistania podcast, covering the wonderful world of graph database technology and interviewing some of the most interesting graph thinkers and developers from across the globe. If you’re new… Read more →
Keywords: data science • emil eifrem • Graphistania • Kettle • natural language processing • Neo4j Community • real-time recommendation engine • social network analysis • spring data neo4j • telecom
Meet the 2018 Graphie Award Winners
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 21, 2018 5 mins read
Last night at GraphConnect 2018, we announced the 11 winners of the 2018 Neo4j Graphie Awards at the conference’s closing reception. The Graphie Awards celebrate the world’s most innovative graph technology applications, recognizing success in connected data across multiple categories… Read more →
Keywords: artificial intelligence • Connected Data • digital transformation • Graph Analytics • graph platform • graph technology • graphconnect • machine learning • medical research • PageRank
Graphs4Good: Connected Data for a Better World
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 20, 2018 6 mins read
You’re reading this because of a napkin. It was the year 2000, and I was on a flight to Mumbai. Peter, Johan and I had been building an enterprise content management system (ECM) but kept running up against the challenge… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • data journalism • data science • fake news • graph technology • Graphs4Good • icij • nasa • Neo4j Community • Panama Papers
An In-Depth Graph Analysis of the Paradise Papers
By William_Lyon
November 17, 2017 10 mins read
Today, the ICIJ has publicly released data from its most recent year-long investigation into the offshore industry, known as the Paradise Papers. In the last few weeks since the ICIJ announced their investigation, we’ve seen many reports being published covering… Read more →
Keywords: Data Visualization • graph algorithms • graph visualization • icij • javascript • offshore finance • PageRank • Panama Papers • paradise papers • Wilbur Ross
Analyzing the Paradise Papers with Neo4j: A Closer Look at Queries, Data Models & More
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 13, 2017 7 mins read
Our friends from the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) just announced the Paradise Papers this past week, a new trove of leaked documents from the law firm Appleby and trust company Asiaciti. Similar to the Panama Papers before (which… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • cypher • Duchy of Lancaster • graph algorithms • graph visualization • icij • neo4j • Panama Papers • paradise papers • Wilbur Ross
From the Neo4j Community: October 2016
By Rachel Howard
November 17, 2016 3 mins read
October was a big month for the Neo4j community – not only was there GraphConnect San Francisco (catch video recordings here), but also the beta launch of Neo4j 3.1. Beyond that, the Neo4j community was doing what it does best… Read more →
Keywords: Big Data • cypher • graph database • graphconnect • Load CSV • nasa • Neo4j Community • Panama Papers • software development • US presidential election
The 5-Minute Interview: Paul Jongsma, Founder of Webtic
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 12, 2016 3 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I spoke with Paul Jongsma, Founder of Webtic. Paul and I sat down together at GraphConnect Europe last April. Here’s what we talked about: Can you tell me a little bit about how you guys… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • cypher • data model • graph database • neo4j 3.0 • rdbms • relational database • sql • web solutions • Webtic
From the Neo4j Community: July 2016
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 9, 2016 4 mins read
The Neo4j community has been very active this summer – that much is obvious. What you might not have noticed is how many new integrations and drivers have been published for new programming languages in the last month. Highlights include:… Read more →
Keywords: elasticsearch • Elixir • Golang • grails • Neo4j Community • PHP • Pokémon • Recommendation Engine • spark • Tour de France
The 5-Minute Interview: Mar Cabra, Editor at the ICIJ
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 24, 2016 8 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I sat down with Mar Cabra, the Data & Research Unit Editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). I caught up with Mar at GraphConnect Europe after her standing-room-only keynote: “How the ICIJ… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • data analysis • ETL tool • fraud detection • graph visualization • graphconnect • icij • Linkurious • Mossack Fonseca • Panama Papers
Announcing the Neo4j Data Journalism Accelerator Program
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 17, 2016 3 mins read
Today’s journalists don’t find themselves short on data – rather, they’re drowning in it. As the Panama Papers investigation has clearly shown, today’s biggest breaking news stories are centered around data and the stories that can be extracted from it.… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • data journalism • data journalist • graph database • icij • investigative reporting • IRE conference • neo4j • Panama Papers • swiss leaks
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
The Panama Papers Graph Database Is Now Available for Download
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 26, 2016 2 mins read
Editor’s Note: Don’t miss this live webinar with Mar Cabra on how the ICIJ used Neo4j to unravel the Panama Papers happening today (26 May) at 9:00 PDT / 18:00 CEST. Click here to register or for more info. The… Read more →
Keywords: command-line interface • csv • docker • graph database • icij • Mac distribution • neo4j • neo4j-import • Panama Papers • twitter
From the Neo4j Community: April 2016
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 13, 2016 3 mins read
Every year around GraphConnect, the Neo4j community shows off how awesome they are with even more and better content than usual. April 2016 was no exception, especially in light of the Neo4j 3.0 announcement and the ongoing Panama Papers coverage.… Read more →
Keywords: data models • Game of Thrones • graph database • graphconnect • neo4j 3.0 • Neo4j Community • Panama Papers • PHP client • REST API • social data
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
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 Panama Papers: Why It Couldn’t Have Happened Ten Years Ago
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 6, 2016 4 mins read
Members of the global elite (and everyone else) witnessed first-hand the power of big data analysis earlier this week with the worldwide announcement of the largest data leak in recorded history: the Panama Papers. Led by the International Consortium of… Read more →
Keywords: Big Data • data analysis • data journalism • graph database • icij • Linkurious • Mossack Fonseca • neo4j • Panama Papers • swiss leaks
Geospatial Indexing US Congressional Districts with Neo4j-spatial
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 28, 2016 8 mins read
In this post I will show you how we can use geospatial indexing with Neo4j. We will extend the legis-graph dataset (a graph of US Congress), adding US Congressional districts to the graph. We will use neo4j-spatial, a plugin for… Read more →
Keywords: Congressional districts • data journalism • data model • geospatial indexing • graph traversal • mapbox • neo4j spatial • PyShp • r-tree • WKT format
The Graph Is Strong with This One: GraphGist Challenge Winners!
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 15, 2016 2 mins read
Last December, we announced the Neo4j Winter GraphGist Challenge. We invited our global graphista community to document and explain how various types of data could be modeled in a graph, using the GraphGist tool. We had dozens of fantastic entries,… Read more →
Keywords: drug repurposing • graphgist • hetnet • investigative journalism • lego • neo4j • Santa Claus • shakespeare • Star Wars • wikipedia
Graph Compute with Neo4j: Built-in Algorithms, Spark & Extensions
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 9, 2016 11 mins read
Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Ryan Boyd – Developer Relations at Neo Technology – delivered this presentation on how to perform various graph compute functions within the Neo4j ecosystem. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and to… Read more →
Keywords: dijkstra algorithm • docker • Graph Algorithm • graph compute • graphconnect • mazerunner • neo4j • OLTP • PageRank • spark
From the Neo4j Community: February 2016
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 8, 2016 3 mins read
In the Neo4j community last month, love was in the air. That love expressed itself as more nodes than ever in our community content. From articles and podcasts to GraphGists and other projects, our global graph of community members keeps… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • data pipeline • elasticsearch • fraud detection • graph database • graph visualization • Master Data Management • metadata management • Neo4j Community • real-time recommendations
Your Perfect Mix Tape for Original Art: Artfinder + Neo4j [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 25, 2016 4 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] They say that that good artists copy, but great artists steal, right? At Artfinder, the global… Read more →
Keywords: art • art recommendations • artfinder • collaborative filtering • cypher • graph database • machine learning • neo4j • real-time recommendations • Recommendation Engine
From the Neo4j Community: January 2016
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 17, 2016 4 mins read
The Neo4j community kicked off 2016 with a bang: This month has more blog posts, videos, presentations and GraphGists than ANY other month previous. With so much great content to dive into this month, we know that 2016 will be… Read more →
Keywords: API • cypher • docker • graph database • microservices • neo4j • Neo4j Community • social network • spring boot • twitter
The 5-Minute Interview: Bert Spaan, New York Public Library
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 12, 2016 6 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I got to sit down with Bert Spaan, the Space/Time Directory Engineer at the New York Public Library. Bert just moved from Amsterdam to New York and is a member of the New York City… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • cypher • data model • geocoder • graph database • graph visualization • histograph • neo4j • new york public library • waag society