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
Game Discovery: A Recommendation Algorithm for Video Games [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 6, 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.] Movie recommendation systems usually ask you to rate what you like or dislike so it can… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • document database • Game Discovery • Graph Algorithm • graph database • recommendation algorithm • Recommendation Engine • recommendation system • shortest path algorithm • video games
Content Is Still King: How We Use Neo4j at Packt Publishing
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 8, 2016 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
A Community for Developers: Building devRant with Neo4j [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 22, 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.] As a software engineer, I’ve always enjoyed discussing technology with like-minded devs who could offer alternate… Read more →
Keywords: app performance • collaborative filtering • data engineering • devRant • minimum viable product • MySQL • neo4j • rapid prototyping • relational database • startup development
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
The 5-Minute Interview: Rachel Lader, Software Engineer at Clippr
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 11, 2016 5 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I caught up with Rachel Lader, a Software Engineer at Apple. Here’s what we talked about: Editor’s Note: Rachel’s work with Clippr is not in any way affiliated with her position at Apple, Inc. as… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • apple • cypher • express.js • machine learning • naive bayes • neo4j • node.js • orm • sql
The 5-Minute Interview: Mark Joslin, CTO of Maslow
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 19, 2016 4 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I sat down with Mark Joslin, the CTO at Maslow. Mark is also the organizer of the New York City Neo4j Meetup group. Q: Tell me about your Neo4j project. Mark Joslin: We actually have… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • ai • cto • cypher • data model • machine learning • maslow • neo4j • Neon • social network
Date Night: Never Disagree on a New Movie Again (with Neo4j) [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 9, 2016 3 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.] Have you ever spent so much time trying to decide what movie to watch that you… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • data relationship • date night • digital entertainment world • entertainment graph • graph database • mediahound • neo4j • Recommendation Engine • scoring algorithm
The 5-Minute Interview: Aseem Kishore, FiftyThree
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 29, 2016 3 mins read
This week’s 5-minute interview is with Aseem Kishore. Aseem is the Web Engineering Lead at FiftyThree, the makers of the popular iOS app, Paper. I sat down to chat with Aseem at GraphConnect San Francisco. Q: Talk to me about… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • data model • fiftythree • graphconnect • ios app • key-value data store • neo4j • paper • social • write throughput
The Neo4j GraphGist Challenge: May the Graph Be with You
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 16, 2015 3 mins read
The Neo4j Winter GraphGist Challenge has officially begun! This year’s mission includes more categories, bigger prizes and new judges, so whether you’re a GraphGist veteran or a brand-new graphista, there is something for everyone to enjoy. The Mission: This year’s… Read more →
Keywords: asciidoc • government data • graph • graphconnect • graphgist • holidays • investigative journalism • neo4j • sports and recreation • web apis
How Gamesys Harnessed Neo4j for Competitive Advantage
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 7, 2015 4 mins read
Gamesys is the largest cash and social gaming operator in UK and Europe, created the world’s first cash gaming application on Facebook. With games like Jackpotjoy, Instant Slots and Here Be Monsters, the company features online bingo, slots and casino… Read more →
Keywords: competitive advantage • data model • data relationship • fraud detection • Gamesys • graph database • neo4j • online bingo • online gaming • social network
How Backstory.io Uses Neo4j to Graph the News [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 1, 2015 5 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.] Backstory is a news exploration website I co-created with my friend Devin. The site automatically organizes… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • graph model • java • key value store • natural language processing • Neo4j Browser • neo4j embedded • news • python • relational database
The 5-Minute Interview: Hamish Boland-Rudder, Online Editor of the ICIJ
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 27, 2015 3 mins read
For this week’s 5-minute interview, I sat down with Hamish Boland-Rudder, the Online Editor for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Hamish and I got to chat at GraphConnect San Francisco. Q: Can you tell me about how you… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • excel • fraud detection • graph database • graph visualization • icij • Linkurious • offshore finance • relational database • sql database
The 5-Minute Interview: Andrew Royer, Independent Neo4j Hacker
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 6, 2015 3 mins read
Interviewer’s note: Starting today, we’re introducing a new feature on the Neo4j blog called “The 5-Minute Interview” where we’ll be interviewing graphistas from every walk of life – from the on-the-edge-of-everything-new hacker to enterprise architects and everyone in between. We… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • cypher • fantasy sports • graph database • graphconnect • neo4j • Neo4j Community • recommendation algorithm • twitter firehose
Building the Graph Your Network App with the Neo4j Docker Image
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 5, 2015 4 mins read
Neo4j has long been distributed with a dataset of movies – showing how movies, actors, actresses, directors and more relate to each other. We’ve also recently added Northwind organizational data for those developers who are more business minded. Nonetheless, these… Read more →
Keywords: data model • docker • docker image • elastic container service • neo4j • Neo4j Browser • neo4j docker • py2neo • python • twitter
Multi-Level Marketing in World of Warcraft using Neo4j
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 15, 2015 6 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. This post was originally published on Kevin Van Gundy’s blog.] Compensation planning and calculations in complex… Read more →
Keywords: commission • data model • Load CSV • multi-level marketing • MySQL • neo4j • royalty • sales compensation • sales organization • world of warcraft