Graph Databases for Beginners: Wait, What Do You Mean by “Graph”?
By Jocelyn Hoppa
December 16, 2019 7 mins read
Learn the difference between a graph and a chart, including the basics of nodes and relationships as well as graph theory and its application to databases.
Explore: chart • Connected Data • data model • graph • graph data model • graph database • graph technology • Graph Theory • network • relational database
Getting Started with the Microsoft Concept Graph in Neo4j
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 8, 2017 4 mins read
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.
Explore: 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 6 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 13 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 11 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 2 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 11 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 4 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 4 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 7 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 3 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 5 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 5 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 3 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 2 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 14 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 21 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 2 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 16 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 3 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 2 mins read
[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 →
Explore: 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 5 mins read
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 →
Finding the Shortest Path through the Park (with Graphs!)
By Neo4j Staff
August 19, 2013 6 mins read
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 →
Explore: 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 < 1 min read
Explore: 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 < 1 min read
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 →
Explore: DOT • graph • Graphviz • neo4j
