This week we have the GraphConnect 2018 opening keynote, releases of APOC and Graph Algorithms, Certificates with Let’sEncrypt, Graphs4Good, and more

1. This Week in Neo4j
22nd September 2018

2. Mark Needham
Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
mark.needham@neo4j.com / devrel@neo4j.com
@markhneedham
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3. The week's graph database news
in one handy slide deck!
Find the archive at
neo4j.com/tag/twin4j

4. Featured community member: Lauren Shin
Learn more about Lauren

5. Hilary Mason and Emil Eifrem presented the opening
keynote at GraphConnect 2018. Emil presented the state of
the graph databases union and Hilary gave a talk about
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, including lots
of different examples of how these
tools allow us to solve new problems.
GraphConnect 2018 Keynote: Hilary Mason and Emil
Eifrem
Watch the keynote

6. Michael released version 3.4.0.3 of the popular APOC
library. This release has support for defining custom
procedures and functions implemented in plain Cypher and
then calling them like regular ones, as well as a new
procedure for scraping web pages – I
look forward to giving that one a try!
APOC Release – Custom Procedures, Web Scraping,
Refreshed Docs
Download the latest APOC

7. On Thursday Emil announced Graphs4Good, a new
program that aims to showcase – and then support,
encourage and connect others to – graph-powered projects
that affect positive social change, uphold democratic
principles and take on some of
the world’s toughest challenges.
Learn about Graphs4Good
Graphs4Good: Building a Better World with
Connected Data

8. We also released a new version of the Graph Algorithms
library. In this release we’ve added support for calculating
similarity between nodes with the Jaccard Similarity,
Cosine Similarity, and Euclidean Distance algorithms. We're
also added Phase 2 support to our
Louvain implementation.
Graph Algos Release – Similarity Functions,
Balanced Triads, Louvain Phase 2
Download the latest Graph Algos

9. This week Michael Hunger was interviewed on the Talking
Kotlin podcast. Michael explains how he got into graphs,
gives an introduction to the property graph model, and
describes the types of queries that work well on graph
databases. In the second half of the interview
Michael talks about integrating Neo4j with
both GraphQL and Kotlin.
Talking Kotlin: Michael Hunger
Listen to the podcast

10. David Allen has written a blog post in which he shows how
to setup valid SSL to protect data in transit using
Let’sEncrypt, a popular free certificate authority.
Getting Certificates for Neo4j with LetsEncrypt
Read the blog post

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This Week in Neo4j - 22nd September 2018