Structuring an Elixir+Phoenix App
I’ve mix phx.new ed many applications and when doing so I often start with wondering how to organize my code. I love how Phoenix pushes you to think about th...
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GraphStarter: Getting a Neo4j Rails app up and running quickly
For a while now I’ve been building various Neo4j.rb educational resources using the example of an asset portal. There has been:
Using Graph Structure Record Linkage on Irish Census Data with Neo4j
For just over a year I’ve been obsessed on-and-off with a project ever since I stayed in the town of Skibbereen, Ireland. Taking data from the 1901 and 1911...
Master Data Management Scoring Examples
A while ago my colleague Michael suggested to me that I draw out some examples of how my record linkage algorithm did it’s thing. In order to do that, I’ve ...
Running a Neo4j Cypher Introduction Workshop
Last night I ran a very successful workshop at the Friends of Neo4j Stockholm meetup group. The format was based on a workshop that I attended in San Franci...
Making Master Data Management Fun with Neo4j - Part 3
In my last two posts I covered the process of importing data from StackOverflow and GitHub for the purpose of creating a combined MDM database. Now we get t...
Making Master Data Management Fun with Neo4j - Part 2
In my last post I said I would “bring in another data source, show how I linked the data together, and demonstrate the sort of bigger picture that one can ge...
Making Master Data Management Fun with Neo4j - Part 1
Joining multiple disparate data-sources, commonly dubbed Master Data Management (MDM), is usually not a fun exercise. I would like to show you how to use a g...
Loading SQL to Neo4j Like Magic
When using neo4j for the first time, most people want to import data from another database to start playing around. There are a lot of options including LOA...
Matchmaking Irish Citizens
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together – The Beatles
Normalizing Religion in Ireland
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or t...
A Blog Post Toward a Programatically Generated Philisophical Language
“Wilkins! Yes! I’ve considered decorating these walls with some graffiti of my own, and writing it in the Universal Character.. but it is too depressing...