Graph Databases for Beginners: Data Modeling Pitfalls to Avoid
With the advent of graph databases, data modeling has become accessible to masses. Mapping business needs into a well-defined structure for data storage and organization has made a sortie du temple (of...
View ArticleConnecting the Tech Stack: 5-Minute Interview with Tim Ward, CEO at CluedIn
“Connected data is always more interesting than disconnected data, especially when you’re wanting to do something like we do,” said Tim Ward, CEO at CluedIn. For Tim, it’s all about flexibility,...
View ArticleMachine Learning on Graphs: 5-Minute Interview with Ajinkya Kale, Senior...
“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...
View ArticleDecyphering Your Graph Model
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Dom Davis at GraphConnect Europe in May 2017. Presentation Summary Graphs really are everywhere, and building your graph database model from the highest...
View ArticleVampire Express: Graphing a Classic ’80s Choose Your Own Adventure Story
Here at Neo4j, we have a motto: Graphs Are Everywhere. This blog series was inspired by all the times I encountered graphs and “graph problems” in my non-working life. Hopefully these posts help you...
View ArticleGraph Algorithms in Neo4j: Graph Algorithms in Practice
Graph analytics have value only if you have the skills to use them and if they can quickly deliver the insights you need. This blog provides a hands-on example using Neo4j on data from Yelp’s Annual...
View ArticleDemining the “Join Bomb” with Graph Queries
For the past couple of months, and even more so since the beer post, people have been asking me a question that I have been struggling to answer myself for quite some time: What is so nice about the...
View ArticleThe first GraphGist Challenge completed
Update: This post is from 2013, the GraphGist infrastructure and links have changed several times since, then. If you are looking for a particular one, please head to the GraphGist portal and search...
View ArticleGraph Gist Winter Challenge Winners
To be honest, we were blown away. When starting this challenge we were really excited and curious about the results. But what YOU created and submitted is just impressive. We received 65...
View ArticleLet Graph-dom Ring! Four GraphDB Reads for the Fourth of July
Celebrate American independence and freedom from table structures with these four blog posts. Happy Fourth of July and happy graphDB reading from the Neo4j team! Blog: Hierarchical Pattern Recognition...
View ArticleFrom the Neo4j Community: June 2014
The Neo4j community once again posted tons of graph-tastic stuff this past month from awesome articles to great GraphGists. Here are a few of our favorites from the Neo4j community in June: Articles...
View ArticleOSCON Twitter Graph
OSCON Twitter Graph As a part of Neo4j’s community engagement around OSCON, we wanted to look at the social media activity of the attendees on Twitter. Working with the Twitter Search API and searching...
View ArticleWhat Can Banks Learn from Online Dating
Neo4j Co-Founder and GraphConnect speaker discusses the role of Graph databases in the future of finance Originally posted on Wired.com Written by CEO of Neo Technology, Emil Eifrem At first glance,...
View ArticleBuilding a Python Web Application Using Flask and Neo4j
Flask, a popular Python web framework, has many tutorials available online which use an SQL database to store information about the website’s users and their activities. While SQL is a great tool for...
View Article(March Madness)
March GRAPHness Download all the code needed to try it out for yourself HERE, or check out the GraphGist HERE. March madness is a rare concord of well-documented data and pop culture. Warren Buffet’s...
View ArticleJCypher: Focus on Your Domain Model, Not How to Map It to the Database...
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] Software developers around the world spend a...
View ArticleInterview: Monitor Network Interdependencies with Neo4j
[This article is excerpted from a white paper by EMA and is used with permission.] Traditional relational databases served the IT industry well in the past. Yet, in most deployments today they demand...
View Article5 Secrets to More Effective Neo4j 2.2 Query Tuning
Even in Neo4j with its high performance graph traversals, there are always queries that could and should be run faster – especially if your data is highly connected and if global pattern matches make...
View ArticleGraph Databases in the Enterprise: Graph-Based Search
Graph-based search is a new approach to data and digital asset management originally pioneered by Facebook and Google. Search powered by a graph database delivers relevant information that you may not...
View ArticleHow Backstory.io Uses Neo4j to Graph the News [Community Post]
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] Backstory is a news exploration website I...
View ArticleNon-Text Discovery with ConceptNet as a Neo4j Database [Community Post]
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] The Problem of Discovery Discovery, especially...
View Article3 RDBMS & Graph Database Deployment Strategies (Polyglot & More)
Whether you’re ready to move your entire legacy RDBMS into a graph database, you’re syncing databases for polyglot persistence or you’re just conducting a brief proof of concept, at some point you’ll...
View ArticleAnalyzing the Panama Papers with Neo4j: Data Models, Queries & More
As the world has seen, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has exposed highly connected networks of offshore tax structures used by the world’s richest elites. These...
View ArticleThe 5-Minute Interview: Tom Zeppenfeldt, Founder of Graphileon
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I chatted with Tom Zeppenfeldt, Director and Founder at Graphileon in the Netherlands. Tom and I chatted this past summer about what’s new at Graphileon. Here’s what...
View ArticleDetecting Fake News with Neo4j & KeyLines
Fake news is one of the more troubling trends of 2017. The term is liberally applied to discredit everything, from stories with perceived bias through to ‘alternative facts’ and downright lies. It has...
View ArticleVisualizing This Week in Tech
Every week there seems to be an overwhelming amount of things happening in the tech world. New startups, products, funding rounds, acquisitions and scientific breakthroughs. All this results in a...
View ArticleCreating an Intelligent Recommendation Framework
It is very likely that you are reading this blog post because a recommendation algorithm decided that it belonged on your feed. It’s also likely that your decision to read this is now being fed back...
View ArticleModel Matters: Graphs, Neo4j and the Future
OpenCredo, consulting partner in the Neo4j Partner Graph, discusses their experiences with using graph databases, Neo4j, and the potential of graph-based applications. As part of our work, we often...
View ArticleI MapReduced a Neo4j store
Creating and using a Neo4j Graph Model for specific use cases Lately I’ve been busy talking at conferences to tell people about our way to create large Neo4j databases. Large means some tens of...
View ArticleGraph Model of Facebook Post Reactions in Neo4j Part 1
Graph Model of Facebook Post Reactions in Neo4j Part 1 This blog post explores how to model the six different reactions on Facebook – like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry – with graph technology. Read...
View ArticleBeing in Control and Staying Agile with Graph Requires Shifting Left at ING
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Gary Stewart and Will Bleker at GraphConnect New York in September 2018. Presentation Summary With challenging requirements in availability, scalability...
View ArticleGraph Data Platforms: From a Napkin Sketch to a Category Leader
A famous Chinese proverb says: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” On its path to being named a leading Graph Data Platform by Forrester Research in its recent “Forrester Wave:...
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