This Week in Neo4j – Google Cloud IAM hierarchy, Analyzing Genomes, Demystifying Graph Databases


Hi everyone,

In this week’s video, Dr Jim Webber talks about the growing importance of Graph Data Science.

Pavan Kumar Kattamuri visualises Google Cloud IAM, Papa Yaw Ofori-Afriyie gives us an intro to graph databases, and Rik Van Bruggen published The Lockdown Anniversary session of Graphistania.

And finally, Sixing Huang analyses genomes using graphs

Cheers, Mark and the Developer Relations team


This week’s featured community member is Frédéric Daniel.

Frédéric Daniel - This Week’s Featured Community Member

Frédéric Daniel – This Week’s Featured Community Member

Frédéric is the Chief Technology Officer at Transparency-One, who make supply chain software that helps businesses create a healthier, safer, and more sustainable world for consumers. He’s been in the software industry for more than 20 years and previously worked at SAP, BusinessObjects, and Deloitte & Touche.

In the talk, Frédéric explains why graphs are great at querying supply chains and takes us through some of the questions that they’ve been able to answer.

The Growing Importance of Graph Data Science


Our video this week is a two part interview about Graph Data Science with Dr Jim Webber, Neo4j’s Chief Scientist.

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In part 1, Jim defines Graph Data Science and explains the benefits that it provides to Data Scientists. He also covers some popular use cases. In part 2, Jim describes the tools that comprise the graph platform and shares his experiences getting businesses started with graphs.

Exploring Neo4j by visualizing Google Cloud IAM hierarchy


Pavan Kumar Kattamuri has written a blog post showing how to use Neo4j for identity and access management.

Pavan visualises some dummy data which replicates Google Cloud IAM resource hierarchy, roles, permissions and Identities. He then writes queries to find the roles associated with users and service accounts.

Analyzing Genomes in a Graph Database


Sixing Huang explains how to compile, compare and analyze KEGG functional orthologs (KO numbers) inferred from all described bacterial species genomes using graphs.

After importing the data using Cypher’s LOAD CSV command, Sixing explores the data using both Cypher queries and the Neo4j Bloom visualisation tool.

Graphistania: The Lockdown Anniversary session, Refactoring Graphs, Performance Testing


Demystifying Graph Databases


Papa Yaw Ofori-Afriyie gives us an introduction to graph databases with the help of graph containing Uncle Kojo’s family tree.

Papa shows how the graph model contrasts with a relational model and also describes use cases where graphs excel.

Tweet of the Week


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