This document provides a summary of news and updates from Neo4j for the week of January 26th, 2019. It highlights a webinar on using Neo4j for intelligence-led policing, a blog post on connecting relationships in a graph database, a post graphing the Bath Christmas market, the release of Neo4j ETL Tool version 1.3.1, and a visual introduction to graph concepts for beginners. Community member Lju Lazarezic and various blog posts are also featured.

1. This Week in Neo4j
26th January 2019

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: Lju Lazarezic
Learn more about Lju

5. Joe Depeau presented a webinar showing how to use
Neo4j for Intelligence led Policing. Joe gives an overview of
how graph data analysis can be used to enhance traditional
investigative methods, explains the POLE data model that
allows this analysis, and gives a live
demo of the Crime Investigation
Sandbox launched in December.
Intelligence led Policing with Neo4j
Watch the video

6. In the 7th post in Jennifer Reif‘s Marvel series, Jennifer
shows how to write the code to pull back the relationships
that connect the entities introduced in the last two weeks.
In a detailed walk through, Jennifer explains where Spring
Data Neo4j can infer what data to pull back based on the
name of a function, and where a
custom query needs to be specified.
Create a Data Marvel: Connecting the Graph
Read the blog post

7. Christmas may have been a month ago now, but David
Barton is still in the Christmas spirit, and has written a blog
post graphing the Bath Christmas Market.
Read the blog post
Gaming the Christmas Market

8. Michael announced the release of version 1.3.1 of the
Neo4j ETL Tool, and from this version onwards, you will no
longer need an activation key to use the Neo4j ETL Tool in
Neo4j Desktop.
Neo4j ETL Tool 1.3.1 Release: White Winter
Read the blog post

9. Estefania Cassingena Navone has written a fantastic
diagram driven introduction to graphs. If you’re curious
about the difference between directed and undirected
graphs, weighted and unweighted
graphs, dense and sparse graphs,
and more, this is the post for you.
Graphs: A Visual Introduction for Beginners
Read the blog post


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This Week in Neo4j - 26th January 2019