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Neo4j Causal Cluster Docker Quickstart

03 Jan 2018 by Eric Spiegelberg · 6 min read Neo4j Causal Cluster Docker SDN OGM

Enterprise IT requirements are demanding and solutions are expected to be reliable, scalable, and continuously available. Databases accomplish this through clustering, the ability of several instances to connect and conceptually appear and operate as a single unit.

Spring Boot Actuator’s Neo4jHealthIndicator

25 Nov 2017 by Eric Spiegelberg · 4 min read Neo4j Spring

Spring and Spring Boot have become the Swiss Army knife of Java software development, offering dozens of useful modules across a wide range of concerns.One such module is Spring Boot Actuator, a sub-project of Spring Boot, that offers built-in, production-grade functionality to help monitor and interact with an application. Numerous endpoints are included that provide a wealth of information that, among others, include auditing, configuration, environment, and health details.

Cybersecurity & Graph Technology: An Excellent Fit

24 Oct 2017 by Eric Spiegelberg · 5 min read Neo4j Security

We are becoming increasingly dependent on technology. Yet, without diligent attention paid to cybersecurity, technology is vulnerable to unauthorized access, change or even destruction. These vulnerabilities pose threats to our individual and collective safety, security and human and economic well-being.Cybersecurity is therefore a vitally important global issue with substantial consequences that depends on safe, stable, and resilient security of our data, devices, and systems.

7VORTEX: Systems Thinking Powered By Graphs

15 Oct 2017 by Miro Marchi · 9 min read Neo4j Graph Visualization Connected Data Analytics

The success of many enterprises greatly depends on their ability to gather useful information and process it in a timely manner. Automation is essential and so is presentation, giving tangible feedback, to decision makers. This is where technology reaches out to management, where science and design are combined to put the right people in the position of making better and more sustainable choices.

Efficient unsupervised keywords extraction using graphs

03 Oct 2017 by Alessandro Negro, Vlasta Kůs, Miro Marchi, Christophe Willemsen · 17 min read Neo4j NLP

Companies of any size have to manage and access huge amounts of data providing advanced services for their end-users or to handle their internal processes. The greater part of this data is usually stored in the form of text. Processing and analyzing this huge source of knowledge represents a competitive advantage, but often, even providing simple and effective access to it is a complex task, due to the unstructured nature of the textual data. This blog post will focus on a specific use case: provide effective access to a huge set of documents - later referred as a corpus -...

Bridging similarity islands in recommendation systems with Neo4j

08 Mar 2017 by Miro Marchi · 9 min read Neo4j Recommendations

Recommendation engines are a crucial element in the global trend towards a push-based web experience and away from a pull-based one. They provide the ability to personalize content offered to each user by predicting the interest the user will have in the recommended items. This is not only a powerful business tool for content providers, but also a vital improvement to the user experience. In today’s world where the volume, interdependence, variety and speed of information is overwhelming, recommendation engines can significantly reduce the gap between us and what we search for. Indeed, these engines are used even to enhance...

Using NLP + Neo4j for a Social Media Recommendation Engine

04 Oct 2016 by Alessandro Negro · 5 min read Neo4j NLP

In recent years, the rapid growth of social media communities has created a vast amount of digital documents on the web. Recommending relevant documents to users is a strategic goal for the effectiveness of customer engagement but at the same time is not a trivial problem.