This Week in Neo4j – Knowledge Graph Search, Lil Jon, JIRA
Developer Relations Engineer
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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 a graph of Dave Chappelle’s Lil Jon Skit, Knowledge Graph Search, an interview with Konstantin Lutovich, and more!
Featured Community Member: Eddy Wong
This week’s featured community member is opens in new tabEddy Wong, Technologist, Advisor, CTO, and Entrepreneur.
Eddy Wong – This Week’s Featured Community Member
Eddy has been part of the Neo4j community since 2012 when he used Neo4j at opens in new tabWanderu, a ground travel metasearch engine and fare aggregator that he co-founded. Eddy presented about his work there at opens in new tabGraphConnect NYC 2013.
Eddy is the organiser of the opens in new tabGraph Database Boston meetup and has been running events since 2013. He was also one of the opens in new tabearly interviewees on the Graphistania podcast.
On behalf of the Neo4j community, thanks for all your work Eddy!
From GraphConnect: Knowledge Graph Search with Elasticsearch
At GraphConnect NYC 2017 opens in new tabLuanne Misquitta and opens in new tabAlessandro Negro explained how to do graph search with Neo4j and Elasticsearch.
They talk about the rise of Knowledge Graphs in the last few years and how we can use them in our applications to serve better search results to users.
Lil Jon Graph, Hungarian Wines, Digital Humanities
- opens in new tabMax De Marzi is back with opens in new tabDynamic Rule Based Decision Trees Part 2. In this post Max shows how to graph opens in new tabDave Chappelle’s A Moment in the Life of Lil Jon Skit. Yeeeah!
- opens in new tabOmar Rampado and opens in new tabFabio Lamanna spoke about collaborative networks in digital humanities at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.
- Sandor Dargo shared his experience opens in new tabbuilding a graph of Hungarian wines
On the podcast: Konstantin Lutovich
This week on the podcast opens in new tabRik opens in new tabinterviewed opens in new tabKonstantin Lutovich, long time Neo4j Kernel team member and current maintainer of the Java and JavaScript drivers.
Rik and Konstantin talk about the new Async API in the Java driver that Konstantin opens in new tabblogged about in early December as well as his experience working on different parts of the database.
Bill of Materials, Pentaho Integration, jQAssistant
- opens in new tabOleg Shilovitsky opens in new tabwrote a summary and opens in new tabshared the slides from his talk with Chris Chaulk at the Graph Database Boston meetup. In the talk they show how to use opens in new tabOpenBOM for bill of material management.
- opens in new tabJens Nerche shows how to use jQAssistant and Neo4j to opens in new tabenrich scanned code with higher level concetps from architecture documentation.
- Mike Schilling created opens in new tabcollector-poc, a small POC to import a JIRA Database in Neo4J. Mike uses the opens in new tabJCypher library to get data into Neo4j.
Next Week
What’s happening next week in the world of graph databases?
| Date | Title | Group | Speaker |
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January 31st 2018 |
opens in new tabQuerying graph data by example from genomics – Part 4 |
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February 1st 2018 |
opens in new tabData Science in Practice: Importing and Visualizing Facebook Data Using Graphs! |
Ray Bernard |
Tweet of the Week
My favourite tweet this week was by opens in new tabJavascriptMick:
TMW you finally get @neo4j #Angular and #d3js working together! #fistpump pic.twitter.com/kOiHDz0lDd
— JavascriptMick (@JavascriptMick) January 23, 2018
Don’t forget to RT if you liked it too.
That’s all for this week. Have a great weekend!
Cheers, Mark
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