Category: Neo4j

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Welcome to This Week in Neo4j where I share the most interesting things I found in our community over the last seven days. This week Will and I previewed the Applied Graph Algorithms training, Joe Depeau launched the Crime Investigation Sandbox, Michael launched a GraphQL to Cypher transpiler for the JVM, and more! This weeks featured community member is Joe Depeau, Senior Presales Consultant at Neo4j. Joe Depeau – This Week’s Featured Community Member Joe has been part of the Neo4j community for just under 18 months, and has quickly become one ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Axel Morgner, Co-Founder and CEO, Structr | December 14, 2018Reading 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 current the latest version (and also the developments of other manufacturers, though Neo4j has not lost its leading position in the market since then), the area of graph databases and graph-based systems has established itself as an independent technology sector that’s growing at an above-average rate.Evidence for ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Emil Eifrem, CEO & Co-Founder, Neo4j, Inc. | December 13, 2018Reading 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 chief financial officer (CFO).Since Mike works from our global headquarters in San Mateo, California, he and I recently got to sit down for an interview. Here’s how it went.For readers who don’t know you, could you tell ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Emil Eifrem, CEO & Co-Founder, Neo4j, Inc. | December 11, 2018Reading time: 7 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 based in San Mateo, California(!).Denise and I got to sit down after she joined the Neo4j board, and here’s what we chatted about.For readers who don’t know you, could you give us a little background?Denise: I grew ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. 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 crossed each bridge once. (This was before Netflix.)This isn’t that complex of a problem, but the people in Königsberg also weren’t that good at math. So they asked their math “friend” (not their friend), Leonhard Euler to figure it out. Euler had way more important shit to figure out at the time ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Graph algorithms provide the means to understand, model and predict complicated dynamics such as the flow of resources or information, the pathways through which contagions or network failures spread, and the influences on and resiliency of groups.This blog series is designed to help you better leverage graph analytics and graph algorithms so you can effectively innovate and develop intelligent solutions faster.Last week we looked at the Neo4j Graph Algorithms library and how it is used on your connected data to gain new insights more easily within Neo4j. This week we begin our ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j | December 9, 2018Reading 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 Editor-in-Chief, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, shined some light back on our Intro to APOC video series (by Michael Hunger) from the YouTube archives for your viewing and listening pleasure.This week, I’ve selected a fun GraphTour 2018 San Francisco talk on Graph Algorithms and “Game of Thrones,” which is admittedly a bit more fun if you’re a fan of ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Welcome to This Week in Neo4j where I share the most interesting things I found in our community over the last seven days. This week Craig Taverner did a great talk about Neo4j Spatial, Jennifer Reif showed how to import data from the Marvel API into Neo4j, David Fox’s presentation about moving an activity feed from Cassandra to Neo4j was published, and more! This weeks featured community member is Parichay Das, Technology & Graph DB Evangelist. Parichay Das – This Week’s Featured Community Member Parichay is a Technology Evangelist with almost a ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Geoffrey Horrell, Director of Product Incubation, Thomson Reuters | December 7, 2018Reading time: 7 minutes Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Geoffrey Horrell at GraphConnect New York in October 2017.Presentation SummaryThomson Reuters has been collecting data for the last 150 years. It became clear that its financial analysis custers were struggling with two key challenges: data silos and the lack of a tool to easily uncover important data connections.Powered with this knowledge, we set about building a solution to both of these problems – which we found in a data ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Sony Green, Co-Founder and Director of Business Development, Kineviz | December 6, 2018Reading time: 6 minutes [Editor’s Note: The blog post and project is the result of a group of graduate students in the M.S. Business Analytics program at Santa Clara University. Learn more about these awesome folks below!]Venture capital has become an increasingly popular and often necessary source of financing for startups in today’s current business climate. Small companies that lack access to other common sources of capital, such as bank loans or debt funding, can get necessary financial backing ... Read More