Getting Started with the Microsoft Concept Graph in Neo4j

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March 8, 2017| Reading time: 4 minutes

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.

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

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November 10, 2016| Reading time: 6 minutes

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 →

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Graphs Are Feeding the World

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October 19, 2016| Reading time: 13 minutes

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 →

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How Graphs Deliver our Strategic Vision at Packt Publishing

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June 9, 2016| Reading time: 11 minutes

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 →

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

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May 20, 2016| Reading time: 2 minutes

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 →

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From Good to Graph: Choosing the Right Database

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May 4, 2016| Reading time: 11 minutes

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 →

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Neo4j 3.0 and the Graph of the Universe

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April 28, 2016| Reading time: 4 minutes

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 →

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

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April 25, 2016| Reading time: 4 minutes

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 →

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

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April 14, 2016| Reading time: 7 minutes

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 →

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Graphs Are Everywhere and Their Possibilities Are Endless

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April 13, 2016| Reading time: 3 minutes

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 →

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RDBMS & Graphs: Graph Basics for the Relational Developer

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February 20, 2016| Reading time: 5 minutes

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 →

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

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February 15, 2016| Reading time: 5 minutes

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 →

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Query Your World with Cypher: Focus on Data Relationships

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February 3, 2016| Reading time: 3 minutes

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 →

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The 5-Minute Interview: Karl Urich, DataFoxtrot

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January 8, 2016| Reading time: 2 minutes

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 →

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

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December 23, 2015| Reading time: 14 minutes

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 →

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Moving Graphs to Production at Scale

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December 17, 2015| Reading time: 22 minutes

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 →

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The Neo4j GraphGist Challenge: May the Graph Be with You

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December 16, 2015| Reading time: 3 minutes

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 →

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

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November 25, 2015| Reading time: 17 minutes

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 →

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Why You Should Build a Neo4j Graph as a Side Project

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October 16, 2015| Reading time: 3 minutes

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 →

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

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September 8, 2015| Reading time: 2 minutes

[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 →

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Neo4j: Building a topic graph with Prismatic Interest Graph API

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February 20, 2015| Reading time: 6 minutes

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 →

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

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August 19, 2013| Reading time: 6 minutes

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 →

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Follow The Data – FEC Campaign Finance Data Challenge

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October 4, 2012| Reading time: 1 minute

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Graph This – rendering your graph with Graphviz.

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May 10, 2012| Reading time: 1 minute

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 →

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Tasting the Flavor Graph: A Foodie’s Dream

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March 23, 2012| Reading time: 2 minutes

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 →

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