Which GraphConnect Training Should You Take? [Quiz]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 17, 2018 3 mins read
It’s that time of year again. In less than five weeks, Emil will be getting on stage at GraphConnect 2018 in the heart to Times Square, NYC and announcing the new release of….wow, I think we’re getting a little ahead… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • data science • Data Visualization • graph algorithms • graphconnect • machine learning • natural language understanding • Neo4j Bloom • neo4j training • python
Telia Zone: Scaling Neo4j to Millions of Homes with Kubernetes
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 25, 2018 15 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Rickard Damm and Lars Ericsson at GraphConnect Europe in May 2017. Presentation Summary Telia Zone is the Telia company’s router, which is used in approximately one million homes in Sweden. Telia uses Neo4j… Read more →
Keywords: ADSL • APIs • Causal Clustering • connected home • data model • graphconnect • Kubernetes • smart phone home platform • telecommunications • Telia Zone
How Hackers Attack: 5-Minute Interview with Andy Robbins, Adversary Resilience Lead at SpecterOps
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 13, 2018 4 mins read
Basically, we get paid to break into organizations, steal their data, and give them a report on how we did it, said Andy Robbins, Pen Tester and Red Team Lead at SpecterOps. Andy is one of the founders of BloodHound,… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • Andy Robbins • attack graph • BloodHound project • cyber security • defense graph • Graph Databases • graph technology • Michael Hunger • SpecterOps
Machine Learning on Graphs: 5-Minute Interview with Ajinkya Kale, Senior Applied Researcher at eBay
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 6, 2018 3 mins read
“Most people are not yet looking at graph databases from a machine-learning point of view. All the inherent knowledge we as humans use to make decisions can be encoded in a graph structure,” said Ajinkya Kale, Senior Applied Researcher at… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • chatbot • Data Visualization • eBay • Graph Databases • graph model • graph technology • Knowledge Graph • machine learning • natural language understanding
Visualizing Healthy Lifestyles: 5-Minute Interview with Alicia Powers, SVP at NYCEDC
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 22, 2018 4 mins read
“The future of graph technology is already here. It’s everywhere, because we can model anything in a way that’s more close to how it is in real life,” said Alicia Powers, Senior Vice President at New York City Economic Development… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • Data Visualization • graph community • Graph Databases • graph technology • graphconnect • neural networks • Recommendation Engine • Social Networks • sql
The Neo4j JDBC Driver 3.3.1 Release Is Here [+ Examples]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 14, 2018 5 mins read
Our team at LARUS has been quite busy since the last JDBC driver release. Today, we’re happy to announce the 3.3.1 release of the Neo4j-JDBC driver. The release has been upgraded to work with recent Neo4j 3.3.x versions and Bolt… Read more →
Keywords: bolt • Causal Clustering • causal consistency • java • Java Naming and Directory Interface • jdbc • JDBC driver • JNDI • Matlab • Pentaho Kettle
Neo4j as a Critical Aspect of Human Capital Management (HCM)
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 11, 2018 22 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Luanne Misquitta at GraphConnect Europe in May 2017. Presentation Summary In this presentation, Luanne Misquitta shares her facility for engaging with the challenges of human capital management (HCM) in contemporary organizations using graph… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • HCM • human capital management • learning management • organizational network analysis • people analytics • people management • sentiment analysis • social network • talent management analytics
A BIG Thank You to the Neo4j Community! [GraphTour Update]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 6, 2018 2 mins read
Graph love is going global, and we’ve taken note. That’s why this year, instead of one centralized conference in Europe, we went on tour to eight cities across Europe and the Middle East. While eight one-day events in eight cities… Read more →
Keywords: cto • Europe • graph database • graph technology • GraphTour • Middle East • neo4j • Neo4j Community
Retail & Neo4j: Customer Experience Personalization
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 8, 2018 5 mins read
To remain viable, today’s retailers must be nimble enough to face their colossal online competition while also addressing another new reality of retail: The customer is now at the center of the value chain. In order to adapt to these… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • customer experience • customer experience personalization • graph analysis • graph database • graph technology • neo4j • path analytics • Recommendation Engine • Retail
Neo4j: The Power behind the Paradise Papers
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 10, 2017 4 mins read
Once again, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has shaken the world with a far-reaching, in-depth investigation into the shadowy world of offshore finance: The Paradise Papers. Using Neo4j, the ICIJ has built upon their Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • Graph Databases • graph technology • graph visualization • icij • international consortium of investigative journalists • neo4j • Panama Papers • paradise papers • Pulitzer Prize
Going Meta: Exploring the Neo4j Graph Database…as a Graph
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 7, 2017 6 mins read
The graph data model is inherently visual. Try explaining a graph to someone new. You’ll inevitably draw a picture, or wave your hands around to convey what you mean by ‘nodes… links…. and more nodes’. People think in graphs, and… Read more →
Keywords: Angular • cypher • GitHub API • graph data model • graph database • graph visualization • GraphQL • Keylines • Neo4j Browser • social network analysis
Accelerating Neo4j with CAPI SNAP from IBM Power Systems
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 23, 2017 5 mins read
The longtime promise of dramatically accelerated computing has arrived on IBM Power Systems servers and the great news is that Neo4j benefits tremendously! I’m sure many people have heard of using GPUs as selected application accelerators. The “what’s new” is… Read more →
Keywords: CAPI • CAPI Flash • CAPI SNAP • data filtering • FPGA • graph database • graphconnect • ibm power systems • IBM POWER8 • nosql
Cybersecurity & Graph Technology: An Excellent Fit
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 19, 2017 5 mins read
Cybersecurity We are becoming increasingly dependent on technology. Yet, without diligent attention paid to cybersecurity, technology is vulnerable to unauthorized access, change or even destruction. These vulnerabilities pose threats to our individual and collective safety, security and human and economic… Read more →
Keywords: Big Data • Connected Data • cyber threat intelligence • cybersecurity • Equifax • financial data • graph technology • GraphAware • graphconnect • mitre
Rapid Graph Technology Prototyping of Sub-Contractor Relationships
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 18, 2017 3 mins read
ISN is the leading provider of Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) management systems for contractor engagement. ISN collects and verifies HSE information from contractors to ensure that they are meeting the necessary requirements before they are allowed to come on… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • cypher • Expero • graph technology • graph traversal • HSE • ISN • javascript • Neo4j Browser • sub-contracting
A Big Step Forward: Spring Data Neo4j 5.0 Release
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 16, 2017 9 mins read
This post introduces what’s been happening in Spring Data Neo4j recently. You will learn about the new features and the simplification of the programming model, find out what has changed under the cover, such as smarter querying for better performance.… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • graphconnect • java • microservices • pivotal • spring • spring boot • spring cloud • Spring Data • spring data neo4j
Analyzing Twitter Hashtag Impact using Neo4j, Python & JavaScript
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 13, 2017 3 mins read
This is the first demo I developed with Neo4j. The objective of the demo is to open the discussion about graph databases, Neo4j, big data, analytics and IBM Power Systems with our global customers. I decided to use Twitter as… Read more →
Keywords: bolt • data import • data model • graph algorithms • graph visualization • ibm power systems • javascript • machine learning • python • twitter
How Graph Technology Helps the Automotive Industry to Innovate with patedo
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 12, 2017 4 mins read
Abstract: KCIG, a German consulting company well-known in the automotive industry, and Structr, jointly created patedo®, a groundbreaking patent search engine, enabling engineers to query the world’s patent databases in unprecedented ways to find relevant working-level information much quicker than… Read more →
Keywords: automotive industry • graph technology • graphconnect • KCIG • patent search • patent search engine • Search Engine • Structr
A Path to the Graph: Data Integration That Begins without Writing Any Code
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 11, 2017 5 mins read
Most people understand the problem in any large organization today is that the data is in silos. Data is disconnected, and as a result, a report from any one source is incomplete and not necessarily actionable to the extent it… Read more →
Keywords: BI • cypher • data fabric • data integration • data management • factgem • graphconnect • nosql database • sql • tableau
7VORTEX: Systems Thinking Powered by Graph Technology
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 10, 2017 5 mins read
The success of many enterprises greatly depends on their ability to gather useful information and process it in a timely manner. Automation is essential and so is presentation, giving tangible feedback, to decision makers. This is where technology reaches out… Read more →
Keywords: biology • Connected Data • graph algorithms • graph technology • graph visualization • GraphAware • graphconnect • natural language processing • nlp • PageRank
Amazon Eating Your Lunch? What Data-Driven Retailers Can Do About It [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 31, 2017 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.] Nearly every analyst of the retail industry would consider Amazon as the source of the declining… Read more →
Keywords: Amazon • Analytics • Connected Data • data silo • data-driven decision making • ecommerce • graph technology • multi-channel marketplace • recommender system • Retail
Graph Algorithms: Make Election Data Great Again
By Rachel Howard
August 22, 2017 12 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by John Swain at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Summary In this presentation, learn how John Swain of Right Relevance (and Microsoft Azure) set out to analyze Twitter conversations around both Brexit and… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • betweenness centrality • community detection algorithm • cypher • Graph Algorithm • graphconnect • law of the few • PageRank • python • r
The Top 13 Resources for Understanding Graph Theory & Algorithms
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 16, 2017 6 mins read
Recently we announced the availability of some super efficient graph algorithms for Neo4j. In case you missed the announcement, we now have an easy-to-use library of graph algorithms that are tuned to make full use of compute resources. As part… Read more →
Keywords: Euler • graph algorithms • graph database • graph technology • Graph Theory • neo4j • Network Science • network theory • social media • social network analysis
Meet the ICIJ’s First-Ever Neo4j Connected Data Fellow
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 14, 2017 2 mins read
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in partnership with the graph platform company Neo4j, are proud to welcome Manuel Villa as the first-ever Neo4j Connected Data Fellow. The fellowship, announced last May, was inspired by the way graph databases… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • data journalism • graph database • graph platform • graphconnect • icij • investigative journalism • neo4j • Panama Papers • Pulitzer Prize
Cypher: Write Fast and Furious
By Rachel Howard
August 11, 2017 6 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Christophe Willemsen at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Presentation Summary In this presentation, Christophe Willemsen covers a variety of do-and-don’t tips to help your Cypher queries run faster than ever in Neo4j.… Read more →
Keywords: .NET • bolt • cypher • graphconnect • java • javascript • neo4j • object mapper • PHP • python
Summer 2017 Release of the APOC Procedures Library
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 25, 2017 5 mins read
It’s summertime, but that doesn’t mean we’re less active building cool stuff for you to use with Neo4j. If you haven’t heard of APOC yet – dubbed “Awesome Procedures On Cypher” – it’s a Swiss Army knife of useful utilities… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • cypher • fuzzy matching • Levenshtein distance • neo4j • Neo4j 3.1 • Neo4j Browser • neo4j-shell • relational database • XML