Tag Archives: graph

Getting Started with the Microsoft Concept Graph in Neo4j

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | March 8, 2017

What does the study of concepts (or categories, depending on your field of study) tell us about the human mind? A result of the Probase research project, the Microsoft Concept Graph harnesses billions of web pages and search logs to build a huge graph of relations between words (like “apple”) and their concepts (like “fruit” or “hardware company”). Using this data, the team at Microsoft hopes to build better search engines, spell-checkers, recommendation engine, taxonomies and more.

Keywords:  concept graph • concepts • cypher • graph • Microsoft • neo4j • Neo4j Browser • Recommendation Engine • Search Engine • taxonomies

Why We Just Raised a $36M Series D – and What’s Next for the Graph Space

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | November 10, 2016

I’m incredibly excited to announce that the Neo4j team has just raised $36 million in a series D funding round. I am glad to welcome Greenbridge Investment Partners to the graph of Neo4j investors, and I’d like to thank all… Read more →

Keywords:  connected enterprise • data model • DB Engines • graph • graph database • graph technology • graphconnect • Neo4j 3.1 • nosql • open source

Graphs Are Feeding the World

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | October 19, 2016

Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Tim Williamson at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2015. Here’s a quick review of what he covered: The needs of a growing population Leaps in scientific research Increasing crop yields with graph databases… Read more →

Keywords:  ancestry data • apache spark • genomic data • genotype data • graph • graphconnect • HBase • Kafka • monsanto • Oracle

How Graphs Deliver our Strategic Vision at Packt Publishing

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | June 9, 2016

Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Greg Roberts at GraphConnect Europe in April 2016. Here’s the TL;DR of what he covered: Automated metadata generation using Stack Overflow tags and topic keywords Adding an ontology for context Parsing ebooks for… Read more →

Keywords:  automated metadata generation • graph • graph visualization • graphconnect • ontology • Packt Publishing • personalized recommendations • Spreading Activation • stack overflow • tf-idf algorithm

The 5-Minute Interview: Kent Lovestjärna, Digital Media Manager at Hästens

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | May 20, 2016

For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I caught up with Kent Lovestjärna, the Digital Media Manager at Hästens Sängar in Köping, Sweden. I chatted at Kent while we were at GraphConnect Europe. Here’s what we discussed: Q: Talk to me about… Read more →

Keywords:  5-minute interview • digital media • graph • Graph Databases • graphconnect • Hästens • Master Data Management • neo4j • SAP • Sweden

From Good to Graph: Choosing the Right Database

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | May 4, 2016

Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Clark Richey – Chief Technology Officer at FactGem – delivered this presentation on his database decision path toward Neo4j. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and GraphConnect Europe, check out graphconnect.com.. I’m… Read more →

Keywords:  Data Visualization • document database • graph • graph database • graphconnect • nosql database • RDF • relational database • resource description framework • XML database

Neo4j 3.0 and the Graph of the Universe

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | April 28, 2016

The Cosmic Web Paper by the Barabasi Lab After I came across this tweet the other night, Turns out the universe is just a very big graph database: https://t.co/tKkTLnNpqK pic.twitter.com/hh4s5pKWPI— David J Carr (@djc1805) April 22, 2016 I checked out… Read more →

Keywords:  binary protocol • bolt • cosmic web • csv data • graph • graph visualization • javascript • Load CSV • neo4j 3.0 • ngraph

Your Technical Documentation Should Be a Graph: Here’s Why

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | April 25, 2016

TL;DR: This blog post is mainly about how technical documentation should ideally be structured: as a graph (not to be confused with a chart). As a software developer and author I have had the chance (and also the obligation) to… Read more →

Keywords:  github • graph • graphconnect • Knowledge Graph • natural language processing • nlp • software developer • stack overflow • Structr • technical documentation

A Graph-Specialized ETL: Taking Citizens into a Graph and Keeping It Up to Date

By Neo4j Community | April 14, 2016

In this post I want to talk about the challenges we faced during our graph journey and how we overcame them. The outline of this post is as follows. Why do we need ETL and sync from SQL to a… Read more →

Keywords:  Big Data • CDC • change data capture • data modeling • etl • graph • graph database • nosql database • rdbms • sql

Graphs Are Everywhere and Their Possibilities Are Endless

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | April 13, 2016

Graphs are everywhere, and with the ability of a graph database to solve multiple business problems, pre-empt potential situations and – most importantly – save companies huge amounts of money in the meantime, why shouldn’t you use Neo4j? Graphs in… Read more →

Keywords:  Connected Data • eSynergy solutions • first-party fraud • fraud detection • graph • logistics • Master Data Management • neo4j training • synthetic identity • triadic closure

RDBMS & Graphs: Graph Basics for the Relational Developer

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | February 20, 2016

We already know that relational databases aren’t always enough for handling the volume, velocity and variety of today’s data, but what’s the clear alternative? There are a lot of other database options out there – including a number of NoSQL… Read more →

Keywords:  data model • graph • graph database • graph processing • Graph Theory • index free adjacency • nosql • OLTP • rdbms • relational database

RDBMS & Graphs: Why Relational Databases Aren’t Always Enough

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | February 15, 2016

Relational databases are powerful tools. Since the 80s, they have been the power-horse of most software applications and continue to do so today. Relational databases (RDBMS) were initially designed to codify paper forms and tabular structures, and they do that… Read more →

Keywords:  Connected Data • Data Relationships • graph • graph database • nosql • polyglot persistence • rdbms • relational algebra • relational database • sql

Query Your World with Cypher: Focus on Data Relationships

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | February 3, 2016

Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Nicole White – Data Scientist at Neo Technology – delivered this presentation on how to write Cypher queries for your most common connected-data questions. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and to… Read more →

Keywords:  cypher • Data Relationships • graph • graph database • graph pattern • graph query language • graphconnect • neo4j • query language • starcraft

The 5-Minute Interview: Karl Urich, DataFoxtrot

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | January 8, 2016

This week’s 5-minute interview is with Karl Urich, the President of DataFoxtrot based in Albany, New York. Karl is also a community contributor to the Neo4j blog. I chatted with Karl at GraphConnect San Francisco. Q: Can you tell us… Read more →

Keywords:  5-minute interview • data outliers • graph • graphconnect • neo4j • spatial • spatial database • spatial intelligence • tech conference • wikipedia data

7 Ways Your Data Is Telling You It’s a Graph

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | December 23, 2015

Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Karen Lopez – Senior Project Manager at InfoAdvisors – delivered a presentation on how to tell when your data will be best served by a graph database. For more videos from GraphConnect… Read more →

Keywords:  data model • data relationship • graph • graph database • graphconnect • neo4j • Recommendation Engine • recursion • relational database • SQL Server

Moving Graphs to Production at Scale

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | December 17, 2015

Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Ian Robinson – Senior Engineer at Neo Technology – delivered this in-depth presentation on how to effectively scale your Neo4j-based application for enterprise-level production. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and to… Read more →

Keywords:  application architecture • Application Development • cluster configuration • embedded neo4j • graph • Graph Algorithm • high availability • iops • jmx • neo4j 2.3

The Neo4j GraphGist Challenge: May the Graph Be with You

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | December 16, 2015

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

Trekking Boldly into the Future: Going Who Knows Where in the Graph Space

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | November 25, 2015

Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Jim Webber – Chief Scientist at Neo Technology – delivered this very sciency closing keynote on the graph database landscape. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and to register for GraphConnect Europe,… Read more →

Keywords:  graph • graph analysis • graph database • multi-model database • neo4j 2.3 • OLAP • predictive analytics • range queries • spark • triadic closure

Why You Should Build a Neo4j Graph as a Side Project

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | October 16, 2015

Editor’s Note: Graph Story is a Bronze sponsor of GraphConnect San Francisco. Register for GraphConnect to meet Ed and other sponsors in person. When the topic of graph databases — specifically Neo4j — has come up in the IRC chatrooms… Read more →

Keywords:  graph • graph database • graphconnect • hashtag • neo4j • Recommendation Engine • relational database • side project • tweets • twitter

Finding Valuable Outliers and Opportunities Using Graph and Spatial [Community Post]

By Bryce Merkl Sasaki | September 8, 2015

[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 article was originally posted by Karl Urich and was used with permission.] Businesses are capitalizing… Read more →

Keywords:  business data • graph • graph tools • graph visualization • Keylines • open source • relationship analysis • relationship graph • spatial • spatial outliers

Neo4j: Building a topic graph with Prismatic Interest Graph API

By Mark Needham | February 20, 2015

Neo4j: Building a topic graph with Prismatic Interest Graph API Originally posted on Mark Needham’s Blog Over the last few weeks I’ve been using various NLP libraries to derive topics for my corpus of How I met your mother episodes… Read more →

Keywords:  API • graph

Finding the Shortest Path through the Park (with Graphs!)

By Neo4j Staff | August 19, 2013

As you may know by now, I like beer. A lot. Why else would I keep writing and talking about it? But there’s more to life than sweet beverages, and one of the things that I have been doing for… Read more →

Keywords:  Antwerp • graph • Graph Algorithm • graph database • graph technology • neo4j • obstacle race • orienteering • shortest path • spreadsheet

Follow The Data – FEC Campaign Finance Data Challenge

By Neo4j Staff | October 4, 2012

Keywords:  Barack Obama • campaign finance data • cypher queries • domain model • FEC • graph • graphconnect • Mitt Romney • neo4j • presidential candidates

Graph This – rendering your graph with Graphviz.

By Neo4j Staff | May 10, 2012

Graph with Graphviz Triggered by a user question, let me just very briefly highlight a nice and easy graph visualization feature.Sometimes, you just want to fast see what you are putting in your little example graph. In Neo4j, there is a well… Read more →

Keywords:  DOT • graph • Graphviz • neo4j

Tasting the Flavor Graph: A Foodie’s Dream

By Neo4j Staff | March 23, 2012

Learn all about Flavorwocky, an amusing name for a clever idea that highlights the connectedness of everyday life. With a little bit of coding, the simple idea about related flavors became Luanne Misquitta’s winning entry for the Neo4j Heroku Challenge.… Read more →

Keywords:  flavor pairing • Foodie • grails • graph • heroku • Heroku Challenge • neo4j • Neo4j+grails • search by ingredient • user experience