This Week in Neo4j – 2 December 2017

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. You can find previous versions on the opens in new tab#twin4j page.

This week’s featured community member is Laura Drummer, Director of Software & Engineering at opens in new tabNovetta Solutions.

Person Name - This Week's Featured Community Member


Laura Drummer – This Week’s Featured Community Member

Laura organises the opens in new tabColumbia GraphDB meetup and has also presented on Neo4j at the opens in new tabData Science meetup in Maryland

Laura presented opens in new tabSentiment and Social Network Analysis at our most recent GraphConnect conference in New York City. In this talk Laura showed how opens in new tabSocialBee enriches social network analysis with topic modelling, sentiment analysis, and trending over time.

A few days after returning home from the conference Laura had her first baby!

On behalf of the Neo4j community, congratulations and thanks for all your work Laura!

Online Meetup: How Project Rephetio used Neo4j to predict drug repurposing

In this week’s online meetup opens in new tabDaniel Himmelstein explained how he used Neo4j to predict drug repurposing in opens in new tabProject Rephetio.

Daniel also presented opens in new tablightning talk on the same topic at GraphConnect SF 2016. He also wrote an opens in new tabaccompanying blog post.

Geocoding Paradise Papers, Graphs for Telecoms, Graph Algorithms

Paradise Papers at ada_CONF

My colleague opens in new tabLouise Söderström explained how we build the Cypher query language as well as covering common graph use cases in a talk at opens in new tabada_CONF.

Louise Söderström presenting at ada_CONF


Louise Söderström presenting at ada_CONF

opens in new tabada_CONF is a one day hands-on tech and IT conference for women and/or trans people with the focus on sharing skills.

The slides from Louise’s talk are opens in new tabon slideshare.

Tweet of the Week

My favourite tweet this week was by opens in new tabAnjani Dhrangadhariy:

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

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

Cheers, Mark