This weekly newsletter about Neo4j includes: - A slide deck summarizing graph database news - A featured community member who uses Neo4j - A post showing how to model a Lil Jon music video as a graph - A talk about using Neo4j for bill of materials management - A podcast interview with a Neo4j driver maintainer - A proof of concept for importing JIRA data into Neo4j - A video about searching graphs with Neo4j and Elasticsearch

1. This Week in Neo4j
27th January 2018

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

3. Featured community member: Eddy Wong
@eddywongch

4. Max De Marzi is back with Dynamic Rule Based Decision
Trees Part 2. In this post Max shows how to graph Dave
Chappelle’s A Moment in the Life of Lil
Jon Skit. Yeeeah!
Dynamic Rule Based Decision Trees with Lil Jon
maxdemarzi.com/2018/01/26/dynamic-rule-based-decision-trees-in-neo4j-part-2/

5. Bill of Materials and Neo4j
Oleg Shilovitsky wrote a summary and shared the slides
from his talk with Chris Chaulk at the Graph Database
Boston meetup. In the talk they show how
to use OpenBOM for bill of material
management.
medium.com/@openbom/graph-database-boston-meetup-bill-of-materials-and-neo4j-a0bbe7b4d5ce

6. On the podcast: Konstantin Lutovich
This week on the podcast Rik interviewed Konstantin
Lutovich, long time Neo4j Kernel team member and
current maintainer of the Java and JavaScript drivers. They
talk about the new Async API in the Java driver as
well as Konstantin's experience working on
different parts of the database.
blog.bruggen.com/2018/01/podcast-interview-with-jesus-barrasa.html

7. A small POC to import a JIRA Database in Neo4J
github.com/bindstone/collector-poc
Mike Schilling created collector-poc, a small POC to import
a JIRA Database in Neo4J. Mike uses the JCypher library to
get data into Neo4j.

8. Knowledge Graph Search with Elasticsearch
At GraphConnect NYC 2017 Luanne Misquitta and
Alessandro Negro explained how to do graph search with
Neo4j and Elasticsearch.
youtube.com/watch?v=k8Gu6GMbBtQ

9. If you liked this check out the blog post
neo4j.com/blog/this-week-neo4j-knowledge-graph-search-lil-jon-jira/