Speaker: Jesús Barrasa, Sales Engineering Director (EMEA), Neo4j

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Actioning Knowledge Graphs
Using Neo4j
Dr. Jesús Barrasa
Director Sales Engineering EMEA
Summer 2021

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Probably the most well-known KG: Panama Papers
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/

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KG =
Data
+
Meta
Data

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KG for Metadata Management
(Dataportal) https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/democratizing-data-at-airbnb-852d76c51770
(Amundsen) https://neo4j.com/blog/live-from-lyft/
(DataHub)
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/open-sourcing-datahub--linkedins-metadata-search-and-discovery-p
2017
2019
2019
2020

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Knowledge Graphs for Metadata Management: A Data Pipeline

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A graph of the ecosystem has value far beyond
tracking lineage and cross-functional information.
Data is a proxy for the operations of a company.
Analyzing the network helps to surface lines of
communication and identify facets or
disconnected information.”
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The Dataportal team - Airbnb
in “Democratizing Data at Airbnb” 2017
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/democratizing-data-at-airbnb-852d76c51770

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Knowledge Graphs for Personalisation & Recommendation

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What about RDF?
The World
RDF
(low level model)
PG
(high level model)
MATCH (:Person { name: “JB”})-[:works_for]->(c) RETURN c

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What about Ontologies?
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https://neo4j.com/developer/graph-data-science/build-knowledge-graph-nlp-ontologies/

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Where to go next?
• KG is about making data smarter… but with a purpose
• Identify the purpose (the action in Actioning KG) and build the right semantic
overlay on your data
• Incrementally, Iteratively, checking value after each iteration
Resources
• RDF integration
https://neo4j.com/labs/neosemantics/
• Build a KG with Ontologies and NLP
https://neo4j.com/developer/graph-data-science/build-knowledge-graph-nlp-ontologies/