Social Power, Operational Ease: 5-Minute Interview with David Fox, Software Engineer at Adobe
By Jocelyn Hoppa
January 11, 2019|Reading time: 3 minutes
“We were able to go from 48 Cassandra instances to three Neo4j instances. Going into the project, we weren’t sure whether that was going to be possible,” said David Fox, Software Engineer at Adobe. Adobe runs Behance, a social network… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • activity feed • Adobe • Behance • Cassandra • David Fox • Graph Databases • machine learning • Neo4j Community • social network
The Top 10 Neo4j Videos of 2018
By Jocelyn Hoppa
December 28, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
Two things are certain in life: Taxes! And we’ve committed a lot to video this year. Ranking these 10 videos seemed wrong, as our video content features a wide range of subject matter. Who are we to say what’s best… Read more →
Explore: Bloom • cypher • enterprise AI • GRANDstack • Graph Databases • graph visualization • Hilary Mason • knowledge graphs • machine learning • neo4j
7 Seriously Awesome Neo4j Blogs from 2018
By Jocelyn Hoppa
December 26, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
We all know no one really reads these intros to year-end listicles, so we’ll keep it brief and just say this: thank you to you for reading. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has visited the Neo4j blog in… Read more →
Explore: cypher • Graph Algorithm • Graph Databases • graph technology • microservices • neo4j • Neo4j Community • open data • Russian Twitter trolls • textual data
KeneteK & LARUS Announce a New Graph Partnership
By Jocelyn Hoppa
December 20, 2018|Reading time: 6 minutes
In 2018, it’s been estimated that 80% of financial transactions still pass through a mainframe application, and in most enterprises, a mainframe app is still the center of most data propagation. This stat alone means companies struggle to find a… Read more →
Explore: cypher • data propagation • digital transformation • grad model • Graph Databases • KeneteK • Larus • mainframe application • master data • neo4j
It’s High Time Neo4j Had a CFO – Here’s Who We Chose [Interview]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 13, 2018|Reading time: 8 minutes
Just yesterday, I got to announce the addition of Denise Persson – CMO at Snowflake – to the Neo4j Board of Directors. Today, I get to announce another incredibly important executive appointment: Mike Asher has joined Neo4j as our inaugural… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • Amazon • CFO • Connected Data • Graph Databases • graph technology • Microsoft • Mike Asher • neo4j • Silicon Valley
How to Exploit the 6 Relationships of Retail to Delight Your Customers [Infographic]
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 30, 2018|Reading time: 1 minute
Retail opportunities are as big and dynamic as the industry has ever seen, and yet, knowing what to do or how to attack said opportunities is a bit more difficult to ascertain. U.S. retail sales per year are in the… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • Graph Databases • graph technology • Retail • retail competitive advantage • retail opportunities
FOSDEM 2019: Join Us in the Graph Developer Room!
By Michael Hunger, Developer Relations
November 9, 2018|Reading time: 2 minutes
Like every year, the fall conference season is in full swing when we’re already preparing for the next batch of conferences in spring 2019. We’re happy to announce that the graph processing and graph database developer room was accepted again… Read more →
Explore: data science • FOSDEM • Graph Analytics • Graph Databases • graph processing • graph query language • graph visualization • Internet of Things • natural language processing • Neo4j Community
New Features, Now: 5-Minute Interview with Mark Hashimoto, Senior Director of Engineering, Digital Home at Comcast
By Jocelyn Hoppa
|Reading time: 3 minutes
“One of the most surprising things I’ve seen with Neo4j is the speed at which we’re able to innovate and deliver features to our customers,” said Mark Hashimoto, Senior Director of Engineering, Digital Home at Comcast. In this week’s five-minute… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • Comcast • data fabric • digital home • graph data model • Graph Databases • graph technology • graphconnect • IoT • Universal Studios • XFINITY
If You Build It They Will Come: Starting a GraphDB Meetup Where There Is None
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 30, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
About seven years ago, I came across Neo4j while trying to find a way to visually represent stored information and make connections like the human brain does. At the time, I only really needed to build an awesome recommendation engine… Read more →
Explore: DataPhilly • Graph Databases • graph technology • GraphDB meetup • neo4j • nosql
Interchangeable Parts: 5-Minute Interview with Preston Hendrickson, Principal Systems Analyst at CALIBRE
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 26, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
“It’s easy to teach people to use Neo4j. It’s hands-on training, not death by PowerPoint,” said Preston Hendrickson, Principal Systems Analyst at CALIBRE. CALIBRE works with large government customers, including the U.S. Army, where maintenance, operation and support costs of… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • data retrieval • data science • dynamic SQL • Graph Databases • nosql • python • rdbms • recursive SQL • sql queries
Why You Should Start Thinking About Your Organization as a Graph
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 18, 2018|Reading time: 5 minutes
Do you think there is no space for a graph database in your company? Or it would be a huge effort to integrate a graph database into your product? I have to tell you: You can use a graph database… Read more →
Explore: connected dataset • corporate knowledge • Graph Databases • GraphAware • Hume • issue-tracking systems • javascript • Knowledge Graph • microservices • software development
This Week in Neo4j – Supercharge Developer Productivity with new release of neo4j-graphql.js, Cosine similarity on GoT, New Kettle Plugins Released
By Mark Needham
October 6, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days. This week we learn how to supercharge developer productivity with the latest release of neo4j-graphql.js, there’s… Read more →
Explore: Business Intelligence • cypher • Graph Databases • graphconnect • GraphQL • Kettle • Neo4j Community • Neo4j sandbox • Pentaho Kettle • twin4j
Microservice and Module Management with Neo4j
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 3, 2018|Reading time: 15 minutes
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by John Lavin at GraphConnect New York in October 2017. Presentation Summary Refactoring monolithic applications into microservices requires putting thought into managing code and its dependencies. At Vanguard Group, some of the existing Java… Read more →
Explore: afferent coupling • cypher • efferent coupling • Graph Databases • graphconnect • java • microservices • module management • monolithic software • Structure101
Hilary Mason [ML at Cloudera] & Stephen O’Grady [Principal at RedMonk] Will Keynote at GraphConnect 2018
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 7, 2018|Reading time: 2 minutes
We’re pleased to announce the addition of two phenomenal keynote speakers to the already-awesome lineup of presenters at GraphConnect 2018 in New York City. (Psst: Register now if you haven’t already, as space is limited!). Morning Keynote Speaker: Hilary Mason,… Read more →
Explore: ai • Application Development • artificial intelligence • Cloudera • Graph Databases • graph technology • graphconnect • machine learning • ML • software development
Cypher Philly: Civic Empowerment & Actionable Change Using Data-Driven Storytelling
By Jocelyn Hoppa
September 6, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
We (Jason and Jess) are the co-founders of Untitled Folder, LLC, a software development and consulting agency based out of Philadelphia. We help early-stage startups on their journey from an Untitled Folder of ideas to building a scalable Minimal Viable… Read more →
Explore: cypher • Cypher Philly • data scientists • Graph Databases • graphconnect • Linode • open civic data • Panama Papers • paradise papers
Announcing a New Neo4j Community Site & Forum
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 30, 2018|Reading time: 2 minutes
We are very excited to announce our brand new Neo4j Community site! We created this place to allow our community to ask and answer technical questions, share and discover open source projects with each other, contribute content and collaborate on… Read more →
Explore: community site and forum • discourse • graph community • Graph Databases • graph gear • graph technology • neo4j • Neo4j Community • slack
Neo4j Community Mavens: Because Being a Supernode Isn’t Always a Bad Thing
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 16, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
The Neo4j community is full of different kinds of people: people who help others with technical questions, those who write blogs to help educate others about graph databases, those who contribute to open source projects and more. Our community also… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • Graph Databases • graph technology • information specialists • Malcolm Gladwell • maven • neo4j • Neo4j Community • open source • supernode
Financial Risk Reporting: Graph Technology Is a Game Changer
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 13, 2018|Reading time: 5 minutes
How do you prevent another global financial crisis like the one in 2008? The answer lies in better visibility into the deep connections in risk data. Armed with an understanding of risk data lineage, financial houses could have limited their… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • data lineage • data management • data model • FIBO • financial risk reporting • financial services • Graph Databases • graph technology • risk metadata
Financial Risk Reporting: Building a Risk Metadata Foundation
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 6, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
Regulations, such as BCBS 239, are driving banks to reexamine the way they manage financial risk management data. Building a connected data foundation supports a world of innovative uses of your enterprise data – including 360-degree visibility of your customers,… Read more →
Explore: BCBS 239 • Connected Data • financial risk reporting • financial services • governance • Graph Databases • native graph database • nosql • relational database • risk metadata
Congrats to Cerved and LARUS for Winning the Big Data Analytics Award from Digital360
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 3, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
On July 2018, Cerved – a Neo4j customer – has been awarded with the Big Data Analytics prize, by a panel of 50 CIOs working for the most important Italian companies, at the Digital360 Awards 2018, thanks to its Graph4you… Read more →
Explore: big data analytics • cerved • data connections • Digital360 Awards • financial services • graph algoritms • Graph Databases • graph technology • Graph4you • Larus
Taking the First Step: How to Lead a Local Neo4j GraphDB Meetup
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 2, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
I discovered Neo4j and became instantly captivated. Finding something that made data make sense, was fun, approachable, and easier to learn, I read articles and white papers, watched videos online… but it wasn’t enough. I needed to connect, with people,… Read more →
Explore: Big Data • Connected Data • data science • fraud detection • graph algorithms • Graph Databases • graphitude • neo4j meetup • nodes • relationships
Financial Risk Reporting:
The Connected Nature of Financial Risk
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 30, 2018|Reading time: 5 minutes
As governmental regulations tighten, today’s banks must have a thorough and systematic understanding of risk calculations and their associated data lineage – including where underlying data originates and how it flows through enterprise systems. Forward-looking banks are uniting data silos… Read more →
Explore: BCBS 239 • Connected Data • data lineage • data management • financial risk reporting • financial services • governance • Graph Databases • legal entity identifiers • risk data
Why 20 Women Gathering in the Swedish Mountains Might Just Change the World
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 26, 2018|Reading time: 5 minutes
As a Swedish Generation Xer, I was brought up in the spirit that men and women were created equal, and that gender differences were a social construct that was out of fashion. In Senior High, my technology teacher warned us… Read more →
Explore: computer science • cypher • data analysis • data science • data science camp • female engineer • Graph Databases • pink programming • search engines • statistical models
How Hackers Attack: 5-Minute Interview with Andy Robbins, Adversary Resilience Lead at SpecterOps
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 13, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
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 →
Explore: 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|Reading time: 2 minutes
“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 →
Explore: 5-minute interview • chatbot • Data Visualization • eBay • Graph Databases • graph model • graph technology • Knowledge Graph • machine learning • natural language understanding
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