This Week in Neo4j – West Africa Leaks, GQL Online Meetup, Geospatial Deep Dive, CoinMarketCap Analysis

Mark Needham at Neo4j

Mark Needham

Developer Relations Engineer

Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days.

This week we have West Africa Leaks from the ICIJ, an online meetup about the GQL proposal, a Deep Drive into the Geospatial Data Type, analysis of CoinMarketCap data, and more.

This week’s featured community member is opens in new tabJérôme Baton.

Jérôme Baton - This Week’s Featured Community Member

Jérôme Baton – This Week’s Featured Community Member

Jérôme has been part of the Neo4j community for several years and has been a regular at real life and online meetups over the last couple of years. He’s been helping a lot of users on StackOverflow and Neo4j, built tools for data import and contributed to projects like APOC.
As part of his work he’s teaching graphs and Neo4j to university students.

He is perhaps best known as the author of opens in new tabLearning Neo4j 3.x – Second Edition, a book that aims to quickly get you up to speed with Neo4j via a series of real world use cases and examples. This version of the book has been updated to cover the new features released in the 3.x series of the database.

Jérôme currently translates the opens in new tab“Neo4j: Data and Graphs – II. Deployment” book by the team around Sylvain Roussy from French into English. That book is more fun than most, becauses it follows the adventures of a project team developing a Neo4j app, through their discussions.

Jerome shares useful tools that he’s built as part of his Neo4j projects, including the delightfully named opens in new tabneoloadcsvskelgen, which generates the Cypher code for importing a given CSV file with headers.

On behalf of the Neo4j community, thanks for all your work Jérôme!

On the podcast: Iryna Feuerstein

This week on the Graphistania podcast Rik opens in new tabinterviewed opens in new tabIryna Feuerstein, our featured community member from opens in new tab17th March 2018.

They talk about Iryna’s introduction into the world of graphs via graph theory in a Mathematics degree, the opens in new tabGerman law graph she recently presented at JavaLand in Germany, and Iryna’s predictions for the future of graph technology.

You can listen to their conversation below or opens in new tabread the transcript.

Online Meetup: GQL – A Single Property Graph Query Language

In this week’s online meetup opens in new tabAmy Hodler interviewed Alastair Green, opens in new tabStefan Plantikow, and opens in new tabPetra Selmer about the opens in new tabGQL proposal that was published last week.

GQL is a proposal for a single property graph query language that brings together the best features from opens in new tabPGQL, opens in new tabG-CORE, and opens in new tabCypher.

In the session the authors explain why they came up with the proposal, how languages such as Tinkerpop/Gremlin fit into the picture, graph composability, and the next steps for the project.

Building a smart GIS system, West Africa Leaks, Graph Grouping, New Neo4j Bloom Demo

Atlas - a smart GIS system

Deep Dive: Neo4j 3.4 Geospatial Data Type

In his latest blog post opens in new tabDavid Allen takes a opens in new tabdeep dive into the geospatial data type that was introduced in Neo4j 3.4.

David starts by showing how to create points via Cypher’s opens in new tabLOAD CSV command, before computing distances between points on the globe. He concludes the post by suggesting different applications that can be built with this new functionality.

Windows Logon Tracer, Cypher Query Builder, Analyzing Cryptocurrencies

Tweet of the Week

My favourite tweet this week was by opens in new tabBea Hernández:

Don’t forget to RT if you liked it too.

That’s all for this week. Have a great weekend!

Cheers, Mark