Agile Open Source Intelligence: 5-Minute Interview with Frederick Kagan
By Jocelyn Hoppa
February 1, 2019|Reading time: 6 minutes
“One thing that a relational database isn’t, is relational ,” said Frederick Kagan, Director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute. All intelligence organizations are interested in seeing data connections and traversing networks. The Critical Threats Project… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • cypher • Frederick Kagan • graph technology • Intelligence • intelligence analytical systems • ontologies • python • relational database • sql • unstructured data
Get Control of Today’s Financial Regulations Using the Neo4j Risk Management Platform [Infographic]
By Jocelyn Hoppa
January 31, 2019|Reading time: 1 minute
Financial regulations in the U.S. has become a complicated and fragmented system, but why? Various authorities creating compliance laws include a cast of six federal regulating agencies: The Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the National Credit… Read more →
Explore: financial regulations • Graph Analytics • graph database • graph technology • neo4j • risk compliance • risk management • risk management platform • risk reporting • siloed data
Tackling Hard Problems Head-On: 5-Minute Interview with Hilary Mason, General Manager for Machine Learning at Cloudera
By Jocelyn Hoppa
January 25, 2019|Reading time: 4 minutes
“Bad ideas are the gateway to the best ideas,” said Hilary Mason, General Manager for Machine Learning at Cloudera. Problems that look impossible intrigue Mason, the founder of Fast Forward Labs (now Cloudera Fast Forward Labs). If clients only bring… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • ai • artificial intelligence • Cloudera • data science • graph technology • Hilary Mason • machine learning • machine learning analysis • neo4j
#GraphCast: Emil Eifrem on the Exponential View podcast with Azeem Azhar
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 20, 2019|Reading time: 1 minute
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
A Journey to the Graph Side: How (& Why) the Former CTO of MariaDB Joined Neo4j [Interview]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 15, 2019|Reading time: 7 minutes
If you don’t know anything about MariaDB – and you’re reading a database blog remember – then you’re the exception. In 2018, MariaDB was the second-fastest-growing relational database (behind Postgres) and is a leading example of commercially supported open source… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • cto • graph algorithms • graph database • graph technology • MariaDB • MySQL • neo4j • open source • rdbms • relational database
Next-Gen Master Data Management Runs at the Speed of Now [Infographic]
By Jocelyn Hoppa
January 10, 2019|Reading time: 1 minute
Having a lot of data to mine from is a truly beautiful thing. But many businesses today struggle with data – especially as it grows and becomes more complex – that’s stored in different data repositories, not to mention different… Read more →
Explore: data connections • data repositories • disconnected data • graph technology • Master Data Management
#GraphCast: Bandersnatch Edition
By Jocelyn Hoppa
January 6, 2019|Reading time: 2 minutes
Welcome to this week’s #GraphCast – our new series featuring what you might have missed on the Neo4j YouTube channel. Last week, our Editor-in-Chief, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, decided to get geeked on graph theory proof of Euler’s formula, which highlights… Read more →
Explore: Bandersnatch • complex workflows • Connected Data • decision trees • graph database • graph technology • Graph Theory • GraphCast • GraphConnect 2018 • neo4j • traversal
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
#GraphCast: Euler’s Formula (a Graph Theory Proof)
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 23, 2018|Reading time: 2 minutes
Welcome to this week’s #GraphCast – our fortnightly series featuring what you might have missed in AV media within the wider the world of graphs. Last #GraphCast, our Managing Editor, Jocelyn Hoppa, stole the video I was going to pick… Read more →
Explore: Euler's characteristic formula • Euler's formula • graph database • graph duality • graph technology • Graph Theory • GraphCast • GraphTour • neo4j
Announcing the Neo4j GraphTour in 8+ Cities Worldwide
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 19, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
Starting this February, Neo4j is coming to a city near you to deliver a full day of sessions on how graph database technology is revolutionizing the modern enterprise. The GraphTour Basics This one-day local event will teach you all you… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • cypher • data integration • Graph Analytics • graph database • graph technology • graphconnect • GraphTour • neo4j • Neo4j Community
Graph Databases for Beginners: Native vs. Non-Native Graph Technology
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 18, 2018|Reading time: 8 minutes
It’s a common figure of speech: “Jack of all trades, master of none.” The heart behind the phrase is that if you’re trying to be good at everything, you normally end up being sort of mediocre at a large number… Read more →
Explore: Cassandra • database architecture • graph database • graph processing • graph storage • graph technology • index free adjacency • MySQL • native graph database • native graph technology
The Evolution and Future of Graph Technology: Intelligent Systems
By Jocelyn Hoppa
December 14, 2018|Reading time: 5 minutes
The field of graph technology has developed rapidly in recent years. From the beginnings of the Neo4j graph database – released almost nine years ago in version 1.0 – up to the latest version (and also the developments of other… Read more →
Explore: ai • big data solution • GQL • graph database • graph query language • graph technology • Intelligent Systems • ML • neo4j • nlp • sql
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
Please Welcome Denise Persson – CMO at Snowflake – to the Neo4j Board [Interview]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 11, 2018|Reading time: 8 minutes
It is my pleasure to introduce the newest member of the Neo4j Board of Directors: Denise Persson. Denise is the Chief Marketing Officer at Snowflake Computing, one of the hottest companies in the data space – and like Neo4j, also… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • Connected Data • Denise Persson • Graph Data • graph database • graph technology • neo4j • Neo4j board • Silicon Valley • Snowflake
Graph Databases for Beginners: Other Graph Technologies
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
|Reading time: 7 minutes
Back in the day (when Prussia was still a thing), Königsberg must have been a really boring place. That’s because the definition of fun in Königsberg was to walk around the city’s seven bridges and find a path that only… Read more →
Explore: data model • graph database • graph technology • hypergraph • native graph database • nosql • nosql database • property graph • RDF • Triple Store
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
#GraphCast: Intro to the APOC Utility Library
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 25, 2018|Reading time: 1 minute
Welcome to this week’s #GraphCast – our new series featuring what you might have missed on the Neo4j YouTube channel. Last week, our Managing Editor, Jocelyn Hoppa, unearthed the Graph Karaoke series (by the intrepid Rik Van Bruggen) from the… Read more →
Explore: APOC • cypher • graph database • graph technology • GraphCast • neo4j • Neo4j Community • user-defined functions • user-defined procedures
Flexible Data Pipelines: 5-Minute Interview with Pat Patterson, Technical Director, StreamSets
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 23, 2018|Reading time: 2 minutes
“With Neo4j, we can run analyses across relationships. These analyses are not feasible or even possible when the data is spread out among different systems,” said Pat Patterson, Technical Director, StreamSets. In this week’s five-minute interview, we discuss how StreamSets… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • Big Data • data pipelines • etl • graph technology • graphconnect • Master Data Management • neo4j • relational database • streaming data
Graph Algorithms in Neo4j: Neo4j Graph Analytics
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 19, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
At a fundamental level, a native graph platform is required to make it easy to express relationships across many types of data elements. To succeed with connected data applications, you need to traverse these connections at speed, regardless of how… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • data scientists • graph algorithms • Graph Analytics • graph platform • graph technology • native graph platform • neo4j • pathfinding • solution developers
Fraud Detection Using Graph Technology
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 16, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
Graph technology refers to the storage, management and querying of data graphical representation. Here, your indices become vertices and your relationships are converted into edges. Through analysis of the fine-grained relationships, by using graph analysis, you can find out oddities… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • data analysis • data modeling • fraud detection • graph algorithms • graph database • graph technology • machine learning • money laundering • social media networks
Simplicity Wins: We’re Shifting to an Open Core Licensing Model for Neo4j Enterprise Edition
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 15, 2018|Reading time: 2 minutes
TL;DR: Starting with Neo4j 3.5, Enterprise Edition source code will no longer be published to the open source commons, including future versions. This does not impact Neo4j Community Edition. We will continue to deliver the world’s best and most comprehensive… Read more →
Explore: cypher • graph algorithms • graph database • graph technology • neo4j • Neo4j Community • Neo4j Desktop • Neo4j Graph Platform • open core • open source
Graph Algorithms in Neo4j: Graph Technology & AI Applications
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 12, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
Graph technologies are the scaffolding for building intelligent applications, enabling more accurate predictions and faster decisions. In fact, graphs are underpinning a wide variety of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. This blog series is designed to help you better leverage… Read more →
Explore: ai • artificial intelligence • graph algorithms • Graph Analytics • graph platform • graph technology • Graph Visualizations • Knowledge Graph • machine learning • PageRank
#GraphCast: Graph Karaoke Featuring The Knife’s “Heartbeat”
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 11, 2018|Reading time: 1 minute
Welcome to our new biweekly Sunday series, #GraphCast, which aims to unearth digestible, notable and just plain fun Neo4j YouTube videos (of which there are a lot). Whether we focus on some of our most popular videos or highlight a… Read more →
Explore: graph karaoke • graph technology • GraphCast • neo4j
New Features, Now: 5-Minute Interview with Mark Hashimoto, Senior Director of Engineering, Digital Home at Comcast
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 9, 2018|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
How Real-Time Recommendations Increase Revenues, Optimize Margins and Delight Customers [Infographic]
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 8, 2018|Reading time: 1 minute
“You may also like” sounds simple, but there’s a lot happening behind the scenes. Real-time recommendations work best when they take into account both the user’s needs (what is of interest to them) and your business strategy (items you need… Read more →
Explore: business rules • collaborative filtering • financial services • government services • graph platform • graph technology • Healthcare • knowledge-based filtering • neo4j • real-time recommendations
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