The Graphie Awards: What They Are & How to Win One at GraphConnect 2020
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 3, 2020 2 mins read
Learn how your Neo4j-powered project or application could be up for recognition with a Graphie Award at the GraphConnect 2018 conference in New York City.
Explore: Connected Data • data journalism • graph database • graph technology • graphconnect • Graphie Awards • Graphies • machine learning • neo4j • Neo4j Community
The Top 5 Neo4j Podcasts of 2019
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 24, 2019 3 mins read
Catch up with all of the best episodes from the Neo4j Graphistania podcast during 2019, including episodes with the rebooted format and new co-host.
Explore: ai • data journalism • data science • graph algorithms • graph technology • Graphistania • information theory • machine learning • Neo4j Community • podcast
#GraphCast: Follow the Money
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 2, 2019 2 mins read
Watch this week’s #GraphCast, in which recent ICIJ news has us diving back into the Paradise Papers and their use of graph technology for the investigation.
Explore: data journalism • Data Visualization • graph database • GraphCast • icij • investigative journalism • Linkurious • neo4j • paradise papers
This Week in Neo4j – Women’s World Cup Graph, Bloom Sandbox, Exploring shell companies with graph algorithms
By Mark Needham
June 15, 2019 4 mins read
This week Mike Morley and Sony Green show us how to model and visualize borehole data with Neo4j and GraphXR, and we have a Neo4j Graph for the Women’s World Cup. We also have a Bloom Sandbox, exploration of shell… Read more →
Explore: data import • data journalism • Google Cloud • graph algorithms • GraphXR • Kineviz • Neo4j Bloom • Spotify • twin4j • Women's World Cup
#GraphCast: Emil Eifrem on the Exponential View podcast with Azeem Azhar
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 20, 2019 2 mins read
Welcome to this week’s #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last week, our Managing Editor, Jocelyn Hoppa, highlighted the similarities between the choose-your-own-adventure movie, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and running… Read more →
Explore: Azeem Azhar • data journalism • Data Relationships • emil eifrem • Exponential View • graph technology • GraphCast • icij • international consortium of investigative journalists • Panama Papers
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 →
Explore: Connected Data • data journalism • data science • fake news • graph technology • Graphs4Good • icij • nasa • Neo4j Community • Panama Papers
The ICIJ Releases Neo4j Desktop Download of Paradise Papers
By Ryan Boyd, Developer Relations
December 1, 2017 2 mins read
Early this morning (1 Dec.), the Pulitzer Prize-winning International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released an ICIJ version of Neo4j Desktop which includes the Paradise Papers and the other Offshore Leaks graph data. This desktop package – available for Windows,… Read more →
Explore: cypher • data journalism • graph algorithms • graph database • graph technology • icij • Neo4j Browser • Neo4j Desktop • PageRank • paradise papers
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 →
Explore: Connected Data • data journalism • graph database • graph platform • graphconnect • icij • investigative journalism • neo4j • Panama Papers • Pulitzer Prize
Apply Today: The Neo4j Connected Data Fellowship at Pulitzer Prize-winning ICIJ
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 12, 2017 2 mins read
Neo4j’s CEO, Emil Eifrem, recently blogged about a data journalism fellowship to compliment our Data Journalism Accelerator Program. Yesterday, at the GraphConnect Europe conference, Emil announced additional details on the Fellowship and invited the data journalism community to apply. Neo4j… Read more →
Explore: computer engineering • Connected Data • data journalism • emil eifrem • graphconnect • icij • journalism • neo4j • Panama Papers • Pulitzer Prize
Join Us for the GraphHack at GraphConnect Europe [2017]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 8, 2017 2 mins read
It’s that time of year again for the biggest (and best) graph database hackathon in this or any other parallel universe: The GraphHack. This year’s event takes place at CodeNode London on GraphConnect Eve (10th May 2017). The hackathon will… Read more →
Explore: Brexit • data journalism • electoral commission • fake news • graphconnect • graphHack • hackathon • open data • OpenCorporates • Panama Papers
Data Journalism in the Connected Age [GraphConnect Europe Preview]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 25, 2017 3 mins read
Long before the publication of the Panama Papers investigation in April last year – which was mostly recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize, among other accolades – data journalism had had to deal with vast amounts of highly connected information. Traditionally… Read more →
Explore: Brexit • data journalism • graphconnect • hackathon • icij • investigative journalism • NYU • Panama Papers • Pulitzer Prize • Twitter analytics
GraphConnect Europe Agenda: Everything You Need to Know [2017 Edition]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 20, 2017 3 mins read
You already have all the reasons you should attend GraphConnect Europe and now you know who the top 10 presenters will be, but now it’s time for the easiest selling point of all: the bottom-to-top agenda of all the keynotes,… Read more →
Explore: Airbnb • Apache Mesos • apache spark • Capgemini UK • Causal Clustering • cypher • data journalism • graph technology • graphconnect
9 Reasons Why You Need to Attend GraphConnect Europe in 2017
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 6, 2017 5 mins read
We’ve been busy on this side of the Atlantic and we’re happy to formally invite you to GraphConnect Europe taking place at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London on 11th May 2017. It will certainly be Europe’s largest graph… Read more →
Explore: Airbnb • Capgemini UK • cypher • data journalism • data modeling • Deutsche Bahn • graphconnect • NYU • QEII Centre • Recommendation Engine
This Week in Neo4j – 25 March 2017
By Mark Needham
March 25, 2017 5 mins read
Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we collect the most interesting things that have happened in the world of graph databases over the last 7 days. If you’ve got something that you’d like to see featured in a future… Read more →
Explore: APOC • arrows • cypher • data import • data journalism • DC/OS • graph visualization • python • twin4j • twitter
Analyzing the BuzzFeed TrumpWorld Dataset with Neo4j
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 19, 2017 8 mins read
Update: The Google Doc source and structure changed, we updated the import statements and queries on the trumpworld-graph GitHub repository. I came across this tweet by Sanchez Castro which I am more than happy to support. Hey @neo4j please do… Read more →
Explore: BuzzFeed • cypher • data journalism • Donald Trump • graph database • icij • investigative journalism • neo4j • Panama Papers • TrumpWorld
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 →
Explore: cypher • data journalism • data journalist • graph database • icij • investigative reporting • IRE conference • neo4j • Panama Papers • swiss leaks
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 →
Explore: 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 →
Explore: Congressional districts • data journalism • data model • geospatial indexing • graph traversal • mapbox • neo4j spatial • PyShp • r-tree • WKT format
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 →
Explore: data analysis • data journalism • graph database • HSBC • icij • Linkurious • neo4j • offshore leaks • swiss banking • swiss leaks