Discover what's new in the Neo4j community for the week of 21 October 2017, including Neo4j Python driver 1.5.0, GraphConnect, and GraphQL summit.

1. This Week in Neo4j
21st October 2017

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

3. It's GraphConnect NYC time!
graphconnect.com

4. Featured community member: Tim Ward
@jerrong

5. Version 1.5.0 of the Neo4j Python Driver was released this
week. The 1.5 series uses a least connections load
balancing strategy when interacting with clusters and adds
configuration options to give the
application developer more
control.
Python Driver 1.5.0 released
github.com/neo4j/neo4j-python-driver/releases/tag/1.5.0

6. App Developer Magazine have an interview with Dr Jim
Webber in which he explains how graph databases fit in
the NoSQL landscape, why native graph databases such as
Neo4j are most efficient for querying graph
data, and how the Panama Papers helped
project graphs into the mainstream.
An interview with Dr Jim Webber
appdevelopermagazine.com/5604/2017/10/17/Explaining-graph-databases-to-a-developer

7. The call for participation for the GraphDevRoom at
FOSDEM 2018 is now open. This is the 6th edition of the
GraphDevRoom and suggested topics for this year range
from graph query languages to knowledge graphs,
and from graph processing frameworks to
large scale graph visualisation
FOSDEM 2018 GraphDevRoom: Call for Participation
https://github.com/yantisj/netgrph

8. Analysing Debian packages with Neo4j
youtube.com/watch?v=lpqvv36SBQw
In this week's online meetup Norbert Preining showed us
how to load the Debian UDD into Neo4j
and write Cypher queries to explore
dependencies between packages.

9. If you liked this check out the blog post
https://neo4j.com/blog/this-week-neo4j-21-october-2017