Discover what's new in the Neo4j community for the week of 12 May 2018, including a hands on tutorial of Neo4j Bloom, a new release of Popoto – the visual query builder for Neo4j. We also learn how to build a personalised recommender as well as parse Neo4j’s query log.

1. This Week in Neo4j
12th May 2018

2. The week's graph database news
in one handy slide deck!

3. Find the archive at
neo4j.com/tag/twin4j

4. Featured community member: Thomas Frisendal
Learn more about Thomas

5. Rik has been busy putting Neo4j Bloom through its paces
with a two part tutorial in which he shows how to explore
the Belgian Beer Graph. He gives an introduction to the
basic functionality before explaining
the more advanced custom search
phrases feature.
Hands on with Neo4j Bloom and the Belgian Beer Graph
Read the blog post

6. Building a Recommender Using Neo4j
Grace Tenorio shared the slides from her talk at Women
Who Code Toronto. Grace shows how to build a
recommendation engine for an online grocery store using
different approaches including
user-user collaborative filtering
and K nearest neighbours.
Get the slides

7. This week Ciminera Frederic released version 2.0 of
Popoto, a visual query builder for Neo4j. This release sees
an update to d3 v5, donut representation of node relations
around the node in graph, and support for ‘not’,
‘and’, ‘or’ constraints.
Popoto 2.0 Released
Download the latest version

8. Our customer success team share a script that helps you
make sense of the Neo4j query log. The script summarises
the total number of queries, their running time, the date
and time of the first and last queries,
and more.
Analysing the Neo4j Query Log
Read the Knowledge Base article

9. Detecting Data Models using Graph Algorithms
Read the blog post
Thomas Frisendal published an article in which he shows
how to use the betweenness and closeness centrality graph
algorithms to explore data models. He also explains the
advantages of using graph databases
for Master Data Management
projects.

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This Week in Neo4j - 12th May 2018