This Week in Neo4j: Batch vs. Stream, UX Survey, Kafka Example, Jupyter/Docker for Data Science, Deep Learning

This week’s featured community member is Camilla Dal Rio.

Camilla has worked for Moviri in Italy for more than three years as an analyst and consultant.

Camilla will be presenting this year at NODES 2021 with a session entitled Set your Graph in Hyperdrive with Machine Learning and MLOps.

She has done much in the area of data science. In her own words:

“I’ve always been fascinated by nature’s mathematical order. There’s a model to explain almost every phenomenon, whatever the field. I pursued the Bachelor in Statistics and the Master in Quantitative Finance with the aim of collecting the tools to understand and study this divine-mathematical order of things. I’ve been working within the data science field for years now in Moviri, having the possibility to develop modeling procedures in telco, marketing, finance, and more, and having a first-hand touch on all steps of data science, from data ingestion, ETL, modeling, visualization, and flow automation.

“It’s been a hard, challenging, and enthusiastic experience that’s still teaching me how this world is endless and magnificent. I would like to share my experience with graphistas and data scientists in general, to share our passion and learn from each other by real experiences and use cases.

“Last but not least, I’d been a professional swimmer for some years, and I preserved my motto also in my current job: ‘Hard work pays off.’ Let’s keep pushing and learning for greater and greater achievements!”

Connect with Camilla on LinkedIn

Our colleague David Allen has posted a thread of tweets that can help you understand the challenges of ingesting data into Neo4j. There are benefits and trade-offs with batching and streaming. You can get a lot of “lessons learned” tidbits from what David has to say here. For example, he shares why streaming is so resource-intensive and why you may choose “mini-batches” instead.

Read the Thread Here

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Alex Woolford and Rob Martin created an example that shows how to sink data from Confluent Cloud to Neo4j, by running Kafka Connect in a Docker container.

View the GitHub Repo

Clair Sullivan, a data scientist here at Neo4j, wrote a blog post that teaches you how easy it is to set up your Docker and Jupyter environments to use Neo4j for your data science projects.

Read the Blog Post

Ana Arias, from Kineviz, wrote an interesting blog about the work that University of California, Santa Cruz researchers have done to analyze dreams by creating a dream graph. They used GraphXR and Neo4j to implement their deep learning application that created a dream similarity graph. It uses NLP from dream transcripts to generate the content for the graph.

Read the Blog Post

Last year, at NODES, Giuseppe Villani and Davide Fantuzzi from LARUS Business Automation showed us how to develop an application with JHipster and integrate it with Neo4j. In their application, they use these client-side technologies:

On the server-side, they used:

Watch the Presentation

Reserve your spot now for NODES 2021, an event designed for developers to bring their graph database skills to the next level. This is a free event that will be held on June 17th.

You can register here.

Watch the Promo Video

My favorite tweet this week was by Adam Cowley:

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