This Week in Neo4j – Realworld.io example in Go, Graph Neural Network to approximate Network Centralities, Zoom Calls Graph

This week’s featured community member is Liz Maida.

Liz Maida is the Founder and CEO of Uplevel Security, a security automation company that uses graphs for real-time alert correlation. She previously worked at Akamai Technologies where he played a lead role in Akamai’s initial efforts in DDoS mitigation, fraud detection, and mobile authentication.

Liz is a long time user of Neo4j, using it at Uplevel, along with machine learning approaches, to improve the effectiveness of cypher security teams. She recently presented Which Comes First – The Data Model or the Algorithm? at the NODES 2020 conference, in which she explains some of the real world challenges of graph data modelling.

In the talk, Liz gives us some background of the security domain, explains what data does and doesn’t go into the graph, and explains how the model evolved over time. She also shows how to identity connected components and predict malicious nodes.

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Our video this week is from a new live stream being hosted by Florent Biville, Developer Experience Engineer for Drivers at Neo4j.

In this session, Florent starts building the realworld.io Medium clone using Neo4j and the Go driver.

Kristof Neys is currently doing an internship at Neo4j, where he’s exploring how Graph Neural Networks can be used with Neo4j.

In his first blog post he explores how a Graph Neural Network can be deployed to approximate network centrality measures, such as Harmonic centrality and Eigenvector centrality, before storing the results back into Neo4j.

Read the release post

Neo4j users often ask “what’s going on with my query” and in David Allen’s latest blog post he answers this question.

In the post David explains the role of transactions, how their lifecycle works, and how transactions relate to queries. He also describes the procedures we can use to understand what’s going on and explains how clusters come into all this.

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Rik Van Bruggen’s latest blog post is a really apt one for the Coronavirus enforced year of video calls.

Rik shows how to get his Google Calendar meetings into Neo4j, and then runs Cypher queries to discover who he meets with most and his worst day for meetings. He definitely has a lot more meetings than I do!

Read the blog post

My favourite tweet this week was by Matt Redlon:

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