#GraphCast: The Laundromat [Panama Papers Movie]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 30, 2019 2 mins read
Check out this week’s #GraphCast, featuring a trailer of “The Laundromat” (starring Meryl Streep), a movie about the Panama Papers investigation powered by Neo4j.
Keywords: graph database • graph visualization • GraphCast • icij • international consortium of investigative journalists • money laundering • Mossack Fonseca • Panama Papers • tax evasion
#GraphCast: How Graphs Are Used around the Globe
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 10, 2019 2 mins read
Check out this week’s #GraphCast, featuring graph technology users from around the world talking about how they use Neo4j to solve connected data problems.
Keywords: Adobe • Data Visualization • Global Graph Celebration Day • Graph Theory • GraphCast • Leonhard Euler • machine learning • nasa • Neo4j Bloom • Panama Papers
#GraphCast: Emil Eifrem on the Exponential View podcast with Azeem Azhar
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 20, 2019 2 mins read
Welcome to this week’s #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last week, our Managing Editor, Jocelyn Hoppa, highlighted the similarities between the choose-your-own-adventure movie, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and running… Read more →
Keywords: Azeem Azhar • data journalism • Data Relationships • emil eifrem • Exponential View • graph technology • GraphCast • icij • international consortium of investigative journalists • Panama Papers
Graphs4Good: Connected Data for a Better World
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 20, 2018 6 mins read
You’re reading this because of a napkin. It was the year 2000, and I was on a flight to Mumbai. Peter, Johan and I had been building an enterprise content management system (ECM) but kept running up against the challenge… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • data journalism • data science • fake news • graph technology • Graphs4Good • icij • nasa • Neo4j Community • Panama Papers
Getting Started with Data Analysis using Neo4j [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 1, 2018 9 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] Why Are We Doing This? Data analysis is the phenomenon of dissecting, structuring and understanding data.… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • cypher • data analysis • data integrity • Issuu • json • Neo4j Desktop • Neo4j documentation • nosql • user-defined procedures
Graph Algorithms: Make Election Data Great Again
By Rachel Howard
August 22, 2017 12 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by John Swain at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Summary In this presentation, learn how John Swain of Right Relevance (and Microsoft Azure) set out to analyze Twitter conversations around both Brexit and… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • betweenness centrality • community detection algorithm • cypher • Graph Algorithm • graphconnect • law of the few • PageRank • python • r
Meet the ICIJ’s First-Ever Neo4j Connected Data Fellow
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 14, 2017 2 mins read
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in partnership with the graph platform company Neo4j, are proud to welcome Manuel Villa as the first-ever Neo4j Connected Data Fellow. The fellowship, announced last May, was inspired by the way graph databases… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • data journalism • graph database • graph platform • graphconnect • icij • investigative journalism • neo4j • Panama Papers • Pulitzer Prize
Machine Learning, Graphs and the Fake News Epidemic (Part 1)
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 2, 2017 4 mins read
Regardless of your political affiliation or demographic it’s difficult to deny the effects of the recent fake news boom. The Pew Research Center conducted a survey that found that two in three adults in U.S. believe that the upsurge of… Read more →
Keywords: ai • artificial intelligence • BuzzFeed News • Connected Data • fake news • graph database • graph technology • Knowledge Graph • machine learning • machine learning algorithms
Apply Today: The Neo4j Connected Data Fellowship at Pulitzer Prize-winning ICIJ
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 12, 2017 2 mins read
Neo4j’s CEO, Emil Eifrem, recently blogged about a data journalism fellowship to compliment our Data Journalism Accelerator Program. Yesterday, at the GraphConnect Europe conference, Emil announced additional details on the Fellowship and invited the data journalism community to apply. Neo4j… Read more →
Keywords: computer engineering • Connected Data • data journalism • emil eifrem • graphconnect • icij • journalism • neo4j • Panama Papers • Pulitzer Prize
Detecting Fake News with Neo4j & KeyLines
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 9, 2017 7 mins read
Fake news is one of the more troubling trends of 2017. The term is liberally applied to discredit everything, from stories with perceived bias through to ‘alternative facts’ and downright lies. It has a warping effect on public opinion and… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • cypher • Data Visualization • fake news • fraud • graph analysis • graph model • graph visualization • Keylines • social media
Join Us for the GraphHack at GraphConnect Europe [2017]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 8, 2017 2 mins read
It’s that time of year again for the biggest (and best) graph database hackathon in this or any other parallel universe: The GraphHack. This year’s event takes place at CodeNode London on GraphConnect Eve (10th May 2017). The hackathon will… Read more →
Keywords: Brexit • data journalism • electoral commission • fake news • graphconnect • graphHack • hackathon • open data • OpenCorporates • Panama Papers
Data Journalism in the Connected Age [GraphConnect Europe Preview]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 25, 2017 3 mins read
Long before the publication of the Panama Papers investigation in April last year – which was mostly recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize, among other accolades – data journalism had had to deal with vast amounts of highly connected information. Traditionally… Read more →
Keywords: Brexit • data journalism • graphconnect • hackathon • icij • investigative journalism • NYU • Panama Papers • Pulitzer Prize • Twitter analytics
Just for Flask & React.js Developers: A New Neo4j Movies Template
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 28, 2017 10 mins read
Introduction Let’s jump right into it. You’re a Python developer interested in Neo4j and want to build a web app, microservice or mobile app. You’ve already read up on Neo4j, played around with some datasets, and know enough Cypher to… Read more →
Keywords: bolt • cypher • data model • express.js • flask • microservice • mobile app • python • React.js • web app
The 5-Minute Interview: Cindee Madison, Data Engineer at Gallium Artistic Services
By Rachel Howard
February 3, 2017 4 mins read
“Using artificial intelligence, we’re creating what you could call a social network of the mind,” says Cindee Madison, Data Engineer at Gallium Artistic Services. With tools such as IBM Watson — which provides the technology that allows robots to check… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • ai • artificial intelligence • data model • Data Relationships • graph database • Graph Theory • IBM Watson • relational database • social network
Analyzing the BuzzFeed TrumpWorld Dataset with Neo4j
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 19, 2017 8 mins read
Update: The Google Doc source and structure changed, we updated the import statements and queries on the trumpworld-graph GitHub repository. I came across this tweet by Sanchez Castro which I am more than happy to support. Hey @neo4j please do… Read more →
Keywords: BuzzFeed • cypher • data journalism • Donald Trump • graph database • icij • investigative journalism • neo4j • Panama Papers • TrumpWorld
Couchbase & JDBC Integrations for Neo4j 3.x
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 22, 2016 4 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Lorenzo Speranzoni at GraphConnect Europe in April 2016. Here’s a quick review of what he covered: Converting JSON documents into nodes Couchbase integration architecture How the JDBC driver makes use of the Bolt… Read more →
Keywords: bolt • Couchbase • fraud detection • graph database • graphconnect • jdbc • json • neo4j 3.0 • Recommendation Engine • Spotify
Uncovering Secrets in the Offshore Leaks Database with Tom Sawyer Perspectives (Part 1)
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 12, 2016 5 mins read
Tom Sawyer Software is a Silver sponsor of GraphConnect San Francisco. Meet their team on October 13-14th at the Hyatt Regency SF. The Offshore Leaks Database Challenge The Panama Papers investigation and resulting Offshore Leaks database present an interesting challenge… Read more →
Keywords: Big Data • data integrity • Data Visualization • graph visualization • graphconnect • money laundering • offshore leaks • Panama Papers • tom sawyer perspectives • tom sawyer software
From the Neo4j Community: August 2016
By Rachel Howard
September 16, 2016 3 mins read
The Neo4j community has been busy this summer with a number of great projects, code libraries and a host of great articles on how graphs are everywhere – including everything from the Rio Summer Olympics to examining ISIS support and… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • cypher • graph database • graph visualization • linkedin • Neo4j Community • nosql database • python • scala • summer olympics
The 5-Minute Interview: Paul Jongsma, Founder of Webtic
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 12, 2016 3 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I spoke with Paul Jongsma, Founder of Webtic. Paul and I sat down together at GraphConnect Europe last April. Here’s what we talked about: Can you tell me a little bit about how you guys… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • cypher • data model • graph database • neo4j 3.0 • rdbms • relational database • sql • web solutions • Webtic
From the Neo4j Community: July 2016
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 9, 2016 4 mins read
The Neo4j community has been very active this summer – that much is obvious. What you might not have noticed is how many new integrations and drivers have been published for new programming languages in the last month. Highlights include:… Read more →
Keywords: elasticsearch • Elixir • Golang • grails • Neo4j Community • PHP • Pokémon • Recommendation Engine • spark • Tour de France
How Go + Neo4j Enabled the Financial Times to Deliver at Speed
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 20, 2016 10 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Dan Murphy from the Financial Times at GraphConnect Europe in April 2016. Here’s a quick recap of what he covered: The transition of media from print to digital, particularly for the Financial Times… Read more →
Keywords: data modeling • Financial Times • go • graph technology • graphconnect • Linked Data • microservices • neoism • owl • semantic
The 5-Minute Interview: Mar Cabra, Editor at the ICIJ
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 24, 2016 8 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I sat down with Mar Cabra, the Data & Research Unit Editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). I caught up with Mar at GraphConnect Europe after her standing-room-only keynote: “How the ICIJ… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • data analysis • ETL tool • fraud detection • graph visualization • graphconnect • icij • Linkurious • Mossack Fonseca • Panama Papers
Announcing the Neo4j Data Journalism Accelerator Program
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 17, 2016 3 mins read
Today’s journalists don’t find themselves short on data – rather, they’re drowning in it. As the Panama Papers investigation has clearly shown, today’s biggest breaking news stories are centered around data and the stories that can be extracted from it.… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • data journalism • data journalist • graph database • icij • investigative reporting • IRE conference • neo4j • Panama Papers • swiss leaks
The Panama Papers Graph Database Is Now Available for Download
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 26, 2016 2 mins read
Editor’s Note: Don’t miss this live webinar with Mar Cabra on how the ICIJ used Neo4j to unravel the Panama Papers happening today (26 May) at 9:00 PDT / 18:00 CEST. Click here to register or for more info. The… Read more →
Keywords: command-line interface • csv • docker • graph database • icij • Mac distribution • neo4j • neo4j-import • Panama Papers • twitter
The 5-Minute Interview: Kent Lovestjärna, Digital Media Manager at Hästens
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 20, 2016 3 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I caught up with Kent Lovestjärna, the Digital Media Manager at Hästens Sängar in Köping, Sweden. I chatted at Kent while we were at GraphConnect Europe. Here’s what we discussed: Q: Talk to me about… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • digital media • graph • Graph Databases • graphconnect • Hästens • Master Data Management • neo4j • SAP • Sweden