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Cristina Escalante

COO of SilverLogic

Cristina Escalante is the COO of SilverLogic LLC, and she is a community contributor to the Neo4j blog.


Latest Posts by Cristina Escalante

Orai: Project Planning with Neo4j

A student project was developed though Florida Atlantic University’s Senior Design Program by student team Logic13.BackgroundSprint cycles are an extremely common way for development teams to plan and execute the development of projects. This agile method can be used by a variety of... read more


Introducing the Neo4j Stack Overflow Sandbox

Analyze Stack Overflow questions, answers, tags, and users with Neo4j APOC and Graph Data SciencePhoto by Lagos Techie on UnsplashNeeding no introduction, Stack Overflow has been a vital part of not just the Neo4j community, but of the global programming community, with millions of... read more



A Library for Temporary Neo4j Databases

Getting Started with neo4j-temp-db. Useful, session-based, self-cleaning, temporary Neo4j databases using the multi-db featureSand Castle Photo by Jaime Spaniol on Unsplash IntroductionThe library was originally created to be used with the Graph Examples Portal, which initially used... read more


Register Your Neo4j-Based Models to the Django Admin

Register Your Neo4j-Based Models to Django AdminA Paradise Papers ExampleIf you’re a Django developer, you may have already found the popular py2neo toolkit and may have some experience using Neomodel and/or the Neo4j python driver directly. But how well do these tools play... read more



Neo4j for Django Developers

From zero to deployment with Neo4j’s Paradise Papers dataset.Making the leap from a relational database to a graph database for an existing project is not easy. Questions arise:What happens to the existing data? If the data is migrated, will the whole system have to be rewritten? What... read more


Building a GraphQL-Based CMS with the GRANDstack

We migrated Neo4j’s Graph Examples Portal (AKA the Graph Gist Portal) from Ruby on Rails to GRANDstack (GraphQL, React, Apollo, Neo4j Database). Here is how we did it.It was an exciting project, as I love the combination of React and GraphQL and a graph database.GRANDstack.ioAbout... read more


Learn how to explore the Microsoft Concept Graph using Neo4j and the Cypher graph query language

Getting Started with the Microsoft Concept Graph in Neo4j

Introduction 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... read more


Learn how to use Flask and React.js with Neo4j with this all-new Movies template

Just for Flask & React.js Developers: A New Neo4j Movies Template

Introduction Let’s jump right into it. You’re a Python developer interested in Neo4j and want to build a web app, microservice or mobile app. You’ve already read up on Neo4j, played around with some datasets, and know enough Cypher to get going. Now you’re looking for a demo app or... read more


Learn how to add users to the Node.js / React.js example Neo4j Movie App

Adding Users to the Node.js / React.js Neo4j Movie App

Introduction The Neo4j Movie App Template provides an easy-to-use foundation for your next Neo4j project or experiment using either Node.js or React.js. This article will walk through the creation of users that can log in and interact with the web app’s data. In the Neo4j Movie App... read more


Learn all about how to use Node.js and React.js with Neo4j with this new Movies template

Just for Node.js & React.js Developers: A New Neo4j Movies Template

Let’s jump right into it. You’re a JavaScript developer interested in Neo4j and want to build a web app, microservice or mobile app. You’ve already read up on Neo4j, played around with some datasets, and know enough Cypher to get going. Now you’re looking for a demo app or template to... read more


Learn How to Build an Audio Recommendation Engine for SoundCloud Tags Using Neo4j

SoundCloud Tag Recommendations using Neo4j [Community Post]

Introduction Discovery, especially non-text discovery, is hard. When looking for a some new music to listen to, for example, I might not know exactly what I want, only that I’m looking for something a little folksy that emphasizes my love of New Wave. On the other hand, I might... read more


Learn How to Leverage of Non-Text Discovery by using the ConceptNet Dataset within Neo4j

Non-Text Discovery with ConceptNet as a Neo4j Database [Community Post]

The Problem of Discovery Discovery, especially non-text discovery, is hard. When looking for a cool T-shirt, for example, I might not know exactly what I want, only that I’m looking for a gift T-shirt that’s a little mathy that emphasizes my friend’s love of nature. As a... read more


Learn How to Track Time Travel Events in the Back to the Future Universe Using Neo4j

Time Travel in the Back to the Future Universe with Neo4j [Community Post]

Introduction This article explores time travel in the Back to the Future universe, and how we can use Neo4j to determine how a time traveller might experience the downstream effects of each time travel event. Back to the Future In case you are not familiar, Back to the Future is a... read more