Analyzing Ruby Code with Neo4j
For a long time I’ve been wanting to use Neo4j as a tool to analyze Ruby code. Using Ruby for almost a decade, I have a lot of experience with effectively f...
Posts by Tag
neo4j
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...
Analyzing Ruby’s ObjectSpace with Neo4j
Recently the continuous builds for the neo4j Ruby gem failed for JRuby because the memory limit had been reached. I wanted to see if I could use my favorite...
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...
Modeling in Neo4j Sans Programming
I have a bit of a problem.
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...
Analyzing Twitter with Neo4j and Rails
Having recently become interested in making it easy to pull data from Twitter with neo4apis-twitter I also decided that I wanted to be able to visualize an...
Matchmaking Irish Citizens
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together – The Beatles
elixir
Let Your Database Update You with EctoWatch
Elixir allows application developers to create very parallel and very complex systems. Tools like Phoenix PubSub and LiveView thrive on this property of the ...
Lifting Your Loads for Maintainable Elixir Applications
(This post was originally created for the Erlang Solutions blog. The original can be found here)
Can’t Live with It, Can’t Live without It
(This post was originally created for the Erlang Solutions blog. The original can be found here)
How Far Can I Push a GenServer?
I’ve been using Elixir for a while and I’ve implemented a number of GenServers. But while I think I mostly understand the purpose of them, I’ve not gotten t...
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...
Expecting the Unexpected in Elixir
What can a 50 year old cryptic error message teach us about the software we write today?
master-data-management
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 ...
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...
ruby
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:
Analyzing Ruby’s ObjectSpace with Neo4j
Recently the continuous builds for the neo4j Ruby gem failed for JRuby because the memory limit had been reached. I wanted to see if I could use my favorite...
sql
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...
clojure
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...
r
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...
phoenix
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...
javascript
Why I Love Lodash
I love Lodash, but I’m not here to tell you to use Lodash. It’s up to you to decide if a tool is useful for you or your project. It will come down to the n...