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GraphStuff.FM: The Neo4j Graph Database Developer Podcast

Jason Koo, Jennifer Reif, Andreas Kollegger, Alison Cossettegraphstuff.fm
New to networks? Looking into links? Realising the relevance of relationships? Welcome to GraphStuff, your one-stop podcast for all things connected. Join your hosts Jennifer Reif, Andreas Kollegger, Alison Cossette, Jason Koo and guests as they dive into the world of graph databases. They’ll cover everything from how they’re constructed and where they’re used; introductory to advanced topics from modeling data to finished applications, highlighting best practices and showcasing tools and open-source projects. With something new and different each week, don’t forget to subscribe to get a head’s up of what we’ll be covering next.
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2024 Recap: Favorite highlights!

Topics: Trends/Events over the year GQL release https://neo4j.com/blog/cypher-gql-world/ GraphRAG https://neo4j.com/blog/graphrag-manifesto/ Memorable events/experiences NODES 2024, obviously :) https://neo4j.com/nodes2024/agenda/ GenAI Graph Gathering AI Eng World Fair Neo4j product releases? New Aura console LLM KG Builder https://neo4j.com/labs/genai-ecosystem/llm-graph-builder/ Neo Converse https://neo4j.com/labs/genai-ecosystem/neoconverse/ Neo4j Python Rust extension https://github.com/neo...

Jan 01, 202550 minEp. 35

NODES 2024 Recap

Speaker Resources: NODES 2024 YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvU6t-fXNeQfkpnmgMm4w5h3 NODES 2024 agenda webpage: https://neo4j.com/nodes2024/agenda/ Highlighted sessions: Building a Perfect Supply Chain Chatbot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbfgGYQy5M&list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvU6t-fXNeQfkpnmgMm4w5h3&index=27 Fireside Chat 2023 (final): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynTpg5n2PSU&list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvUu4hzyhWed8Avu5nSUXYrb&index=91 Fireside Chat 2024(fina...

Dec 01, 202440 minEp. 34

Catching Bad Guys using Graph Entity Resolution with Paco Nathan

Speaker Resources: Neo4j+Senzing Tutorial: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/entity-resolved-knowledge-graphs/#neo4j When GraphRAG Goes Bad: A Study in Why you Cannot Afford to Ignore Entity Resolution (Dr. Clair Sullivan): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-graphrag-goesbad-study-why-you-cannot-afford-ignore-sullivan-7ymnc/ Paco’s NODES 2024 session: https://neo4j.com/nodes2024/agenda/entity-resolved-knowledge-graphs/ Graph Power Hour: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9-tchmsp1WMnZKYti-t...

Nov 01, 202447 minEp. 33

Graph Visualization and Storytelling with Michela Ledwidge

Speaker Resources: Mod: https://mod.studio/rd/grapho/ Michela's NODES 2024 session: https://neo4j.com/nodes2024/agenda/spatial-graph-visualisation-and-storytelling-with-grapho-xr/ NeoDash: https://neo4j.com/labs/neodash/ Tools of the Month: Google Notebook LM: https://notebooklm.google/ HeyGen (AI Digital Avatar): https://www.heygen.com IntelliJ IDEA (IDE for Java development) https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ Announcements / News: Articles: Querying Your Neo4j Aura Database Via HTTPS (Again) http...

Oct 01, 202450 minEp. 32

Making Invisible Connections Visible with Tim Eastridge

Speaker Resources: Eastridge Analytics: https://www.eastridge-analytics.com/ Graph Data Science with Python and Neo4j book: https://a.co/d/hkfkxPr LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timeastridge/ NODES 2024 (look for more info on Tim's talk soon!): https://dev.neo4j.com/nodes24 Neo4j GraphAcademy: https://graphacademy.neo4j.com/ Graph Algorithms for Data Science (Tomaž Bratanic): https://a.co/d/7WhibUk Tools of the Month: Jennifer: VS Code https://code.visualstudio.com/ Jason: Cursor ...

Sep 06, 202438 minEp. 31

Pragmatic Knowledge Graphs with Ashleigh Faith

Speaker Resources: Ashleigh’s YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AshleighFaith Tools of the Month: Abk: Any Airline using Windows 3.1 😆 Ashleigh: Zentity: https://zentity.io/ Jason: Cypher Co-pilot: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/cypher-co-pilot/ Alison: System https://www.system.com Announcements / News: Articles: Turning Your Tabular Data Into a Graph Using Cypher https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/scoobygraph-1/ Typing the Neo4j Query API https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/neo4j-query-api/ E...

Aug 01, 202452 minEp. 30

Docker, AI, and More: Catch a Glimpse of the Java Ecosystem with Oleg Šelajev

Speaker Resources: Testcontainers https://testcontainers.com/ NODES 2024 https://dev.neo4j.com/nodes24 Tools of the Month: Neo4j Kubernetes documentation https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/kubernetes/ ragas framework https://ragas.io/ Haiper.ai https://haiper.ai/home ( Neo4j GenAI Package + DreamStudio.ai) Announcements / News: Neo4j GenAI Ecosystem Tools https://neo4j.com/labs/genai-ecosystem/ Neo4j Knowledge Graph Builder https://neo4j.com/labs/genai-ecosystem/llm-graph-builder/ ...

Jul 01, 202445 minEp. 29

Getting the Word out on Knowledge Graphs with Leann Chen

Speaker Resources: Diffbot https://www.diffbot.com/ Tomaz Bratanic’s Medium blog: https://bratanic-tomaz.medium.com/ What is DSP/DSPy? https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy Tools of the Month: cypher-shell command line tool https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/tools/cypher-shell/ Langchain/Diffbot graph transformer https://python.langchain.com/v0.1/docs/integrations/graphs/diffbot/ st-cytoscape https://github.com/vivien000/st-cytoscape Announcements / News: NODES 2024 CfP resources: Gr...

Jun 01, 202449 minEp. 28

Net Zero Decarbonization with Henry Bruce and Mike Napper from ExpectAI

Speaker Resources: ExpectAI: www.expectai.com Tools of the Month: Descript https://www.descript.com/ LLM Graph Builder by Neo4j https://neo4j.com/labs/genai-ecosystem/llm-graph-builder/ LangSmith https://www.langchain.com/langsmith Obsidian https://obsidian.md/ Announcements / News: NODES 2024: Submit Your Talk https://neo4j.com/blog/nodes-by-neo4j/ ISO GQL Standard: Press release: https://neo4j.com/press-releases/gql-standard/ Blog post: https://neo4j.com/blog/gql-international-standard/ Blog p...

May 01, 20241 hr 8 minEp. 27

Providing Better Business Intelligence with Vish Puttagunta

Tools of the Month: apoc.create.vRelationship https://neo4j.com/docs/apoc/current/overview/apoc.create/apoc.create.vRelationship/ GenAI Starter Kits for Langchain, LlamaIndex, Spring.AI and Semantic Kernel, covering the most popular orchestration frameworks in Python, Java, and dotnet. https://neo4j.com/labs/genai-ecosystem/ Vish: Vector support in Neo4j https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/indexes/semantic-indexes/vector-indexes/ Articles: Implementing RAG: How to Write a Graph Retrieva...

Apr 01, 202450 minEp. 27

RAG Databases with Johannes Jolkkonen: When to Choose a Graph Database vs Alternative Vector or Relational Stores

Speaker Resources: Johannes Jolkkonen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesjolkkonen/ Johannes's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@johannesjolkkonen Mar 12 Neo4j Live session: https://www.meetup.com/neo4j-online-meetup/events/299526466/ Tools of the Month: PDF-bot chunker (GenAI stack): https://github.com/docker/genai-stack/blob/main/pdf_bot.py Spring AI: https://spring.io/projects/spring-ai Instructor (library): https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/ Community Projects: Knowledge Graph for ...

Mar 01, 202451 minEp. 26

GenAI solutions with LangChain: Lance Martin on LLMs, agents, evals, and more!

Tools of the Month: Streamlit https://streamlit.io/ Ollama https://ollama.ai/ Git https://git-scm.com/ Speaker Resources: LLMs as kernel of a new kind of OS https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1707437820045062561?s=20 LangChain and LangServ Templates Apps (Neo4j example) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2ZIWFBe0s, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J4h4oGXORtiz1nhHfSF-UtvtlqkfHByD0v2MOwKXBwY/edit#slide=id.g265aec74fa4_0_353 Components of RAG https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10vojKKq-...

Feb 01, 202452 minEp. 25

LlamaIndex and More: Building LLM Tech with Jerry Liu

Tools of the Month: Remix for data-driven websites https://remix.run/ HTTPie: https://httpie.io/cli Pypeteer https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer Rectangle https://rectangleapp.com/ Fireflies.ai https://fireflies.ai/ Video Speed Controller https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-speed-controller/gioehmkjkeamcinbdelehlpnpdcdjpdp?pli=1 Product updates: Neo4j release (5.15) https://neo4j.com/release-notes/database/neo4j-5/ Neo4j Driver updates APOC Core https://github.com/neo4j/apoc/releas...

Jan 01, 202443 minEp. 24

2023 Finale: LLMs and Knowledge Graphs throughout the year

Tools of the month: APOC OpenAI procedures: https://neo4j.com/labs/apoc/5/ml/openai/ Warp terminal: https://www.warp.dev/ Ollama for running LLMs: https://ollama.ai/ Graphacademy courses: LLM Fundamentals: https://graphacademy.neo4j.com/courses/llm-fundamentals/ Build a Neo4j-backed Chatbot using Python: https://graphacademy.neo4j.com/courses/llm-chatbot-python/ Importing CSV data into Neo4j (updated!): https://graphacademy.neo4j.com/courses/importing-cypher/ Product updates: Neo4j/AWS Bedrock i...

Dec 02, 202359 minEp. 23

NODES 2023: Behind the Scenes, Highlights, and More!

NODES 2023 YouTube playlist: dev.neo4j.com/nodes-2023 Tools of the Month: Spring AI: https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/ LangSmith: https://www.langchain.com/langsmith Cody AI: https://about.sourcegraph.com/cody Community Project(s): AD Miner: https://github.com/Mazars-Tech/AD_Miner Product Updates: Vector Search Index (5.13 GA): https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/indexes-for-vector-search/ Parallel Runtime (5.13): https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/planning-and-tunin...

Nov 01, 202350 minEp. 22

Nodes 2023 Preview with Melly Beechwood

neo4cyclone: https://github.com/javixeneize/neo4cyclone Neomodel: Python OGM for Neo4j Extends Version Support and Moves to Neo4j Labs: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/neomodel-python-ogm-neo4j-labs/ Getting From Denmark Hill to Gatwick Airport With Quantified Path Patterns: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/denmark-hill-to-gatwick-airport-quantified-path-patterns/ Graphs for DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response): A Roadmap: http://www.ds4n6.io/blog/23050801.html Leverage LLMs for Graph...

Oct 01, 202339 minEp. 21

NODES 2023 Preview With Spring Expert Mark Heckler

Spring Boot: Up and Running by Mark Heckler: https://bit.ly/springbootbook NODES 2023: https://neo4j.com/nodes-2023 Building an Educational Chatbot for GraphAcademy with Neo4j Using LLMs and Vector Search: https://medium.com/neo4j/building-an-educational-chatbot-for-graphacademy-with-neo4j-f707c4ce311b Livestream: Going Meta Ep 20 Build a Chatbot for Clinical Trials across Multiple Data Sources: https://medium.com/star-gazers/build-a-chatbot-for-clinical-trials-across-multiple-data-sources-f1212...

Sep 06, 202349 minEp. 20

Starting Your Knowledge Graph Journey With Special Guest Dr. Julian Grümmer

Dr Julian Grümmer's NODES 2022 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JfXoubUv3Q Knowledge Graph 101: What Is It, How it Works, & Why It Matters: https://neo4j.com/blog/what-is-knowledge-graph/ Building Knowledge Graphs: A Practitioner's Guide: https://neo4j.com/knowledge-graphs-practitioners-guide Knowledge Graphs & LLMs: Multi-Hop Question & Answering: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/knowledge-graphs-llms-multi-hop-question-answering/ Knowledge Graphs & LLMs: Fine Tuning vs Re...

Aug 02, 202351 minEp. 19

What Is Graph Data Science?

Neo4j Graph Data Science: https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-data-science/current/introduction/ Use Graphs For Smarter AI With Neo4j and Google Cloud VertexAI: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/analyze-graph-data-on-google-cloud-with-neo4j-and-vertex-ai Harnessing LLMs with Neo4j: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/harness-large-language-models-neo4j/ Knowledge Graphs & LLMs: Fine-Tuning Vs. Retrieval-Augmented Generation: https://medium.com/neo4j/knowledge-graphs-llms-fine-...

Jun 28, 202349 minEp. 18

The Perfect Graph For The Perfect Problem

What's New In ArcGIS Knowledge: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-knowledge/announcements/whats-new-arcgis-knowledge-23q2/ StepZen + Neo4j GraphQL: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/api-development-neo4j-graphql-stepzen/ Improving a node.js GraphQL server performance: https://medium.com/@angrykoala/645a4ae711c3 Neosemantics: https://github.com/neo4j-labs/neosemantics Workspace updates w/ Greg King [Dev Tools Product Manager at Neo4j]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUuI9NkOfZo Com...

Jun 02, 20231 hrEp. 17

May The Graph Be With You

Submit your audio question for the GraphStuff.FM podcast: https://www.speakpipe.com/GraphStuff The F#orce Awakens (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI8a6hFFRGQ Star Wars social networks: the force awakens (blog post): http://evelinag.com/blog/2016/01-25-social-network-force-awakens/ JT’s Star Wars video from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdPWH4P4V5A Arrows-to-Data-Importer app: https://dev.neo4j.com/arrows-to-data-importer Graph Aware GPT4: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/con...

May 02, 202353 minEp. 16

Graph Database Use Cases That Will Blow Your Mind

Call for Community Speakers: https://dev.neo4j.com/submit-your-talk Neo4j User Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDbYReEL8JXtlNKsBodtAUnlkuGsAdWJLAQornvxWihembMQ/viewform Data Importer File Filter: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/neo4j-data-importer-introducing-file-filtering/ Bloom Slicer: https://neo4j.com/docs/bloom-user-guide/current/bloom-tutorial/slicer/ Experimental Client APIs: https://medium.com/neo4j/a-new-steer-for-the-neo4j-drivers-ed3de051209e Additional 5.6 release...

Apr 01, 202345 minEp. 15

A Buffet of Cypher and ChatGPT Information

OpenCypher: http://opencypher.org/ ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt Introduction To Cypher: https://neo4j.com/docs/getting-started/current/cypher-intro/ Create Neo4j Database Model with ChatGPT: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/create-neo4j-database-model-with-chatgpt/ Use ChatGPT to Query Your Neo4j Database: https://towardsdatascience.com/use-chatgpt-to-query-your-neo4j-database-78680a05ec2#d083-cf615c9d7f04 Maximising Efficiency: The Power of ChatGPT and Neo4j for Creating and Importi...

Mar 01, 202344 minEp. 14

2022 Recap: Highlights From The Neo4j Graph Community

Neo4j in 100 seconds by Fireship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6L9EoBy8Zk Under the Hood Series w/ Chris Gioran: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvWn1M0HMOta_9YpN930Ai8R Nodes 2022 Keynote w/ Nicholas Christakis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCMv4UJo--4 How to get all connected nodes and relationships of a particular node: https://community.neo4j.com/t5/neo4j-graph-platform/how-to-get-all-the-connected-nodes-and-relationship-of-a/td-p/28464 Gartner Magic Quadrant Cloud DBM...

Feb 01, 202347 minEp. 13

Introducing The New GraphAcademy With Adam Cowley & How To Get A Free Neo4j Tshirt

Try the new GraphAcademy today: https://graphacademy.neo4j.com/ Introducing the New GraphAcademy blog post: https://medium.com/neo4j/introducing-the-new-graphacademy-45b0df491a23 Adam's "Improving the Neo4j Developer Experience with Neo4j" talk at NODES 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4dTBzZ4uC8&list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvXfH-q5aghB2g7AlIztqoaf&index=3 Follow Adam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamcowley Limited Edition T-shirt Offer Complete the Neo4j Fundamentals and Cypher Fundamentals...

Oct 08, 202119 minEp. 12

Finding Data For Your Graph Adventures With Neo4j

Neo4j Sandbox: https://neo4j.com/sandbox/ OpenStreetMap Neo4j Sandbox: https://sandbox.neo4j.com/?usecase=openstreetmap Neo4j Graph Examples: https://github.com/neo4j-graph-examples Google dataset search: https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/ Meetup API: https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/ Working with the Meetup API & Neo4j: https://github.com/moxious/meetup-dataset NYTimes API: https://developer.nytimes.com/ Working with NYTimes data in Neo4j: https://github.com/johnymontana/news-graph...

Oct 05, 202139 minEp. 11

What's New In Neo4j? Neo4j 4.3 Release, Neo4j Aura Free Tier, Machine Learning With Graph Data Science, The Trillion Relationship Graph & More!

NODES 2021 Keynote video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZCs83_iHU8 Neo4j 4.3 blog post: https://neo4j.com/blog/introducing-neo4j-4-3-the-fastest-path-to-graph-productivity/ What New in Neo4j 4.3 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9klz_c7MPJ4 Neo4j 4.3 release notes: https://neo4j.com/release-notes/neo4j-4-3-0/ Neo4j 4.3 Blog Series: Relationship Indexes: https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/neo4j-4-3-blog-series-relationship-indexes/ Neo4j Raises The Largest Funding Round In Database History:...

Jul 07, 202132 minEp. 10

Extending The Reach of Graphs With Neo4j Connectors for Apache Kafka, Business Intelligence, GraphQL, and Apache Spark

Neo4j Connectors page: neo4j.com/product/connectors Neo4j Connector for Apacha Kafka: neo4j.com/labs/kafka/ Neo4j Connector for Business Intelligence: neo4j.com/bi-connector/ Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark: neo4j.com/product/connectors/apache-spark-connector The Neo4j GraphQL library: neo4j.com/product/graphql-library/ Using Retool with Neo4j GraphQL: neo4j.com/developer-blog/create-your-own-dashboard-using-retool-with-neo4j/ Follow David Allen on Twitter: twitter.com/mdavidallen...

Jun 30, 202150 minEp. 9
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