GraphStuff.FM: The Neo4j Graph Database Developer Podcast

Topics:
Trends/Events over the yearGQL release https://neo4j.com/blog/cypher-gql-world/
GraphRAG https://neo4j.com/blog/graphrag-manifesto/

Memorable events/experiencesNODES 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/neo4j/neo4j-python-driver-rust-ext
Neo4j GraphRAG python library https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j-graphrag-python

Tools of the Month:
Jason:  BAML https://github.com/BoundaryML/baml
Jennifer: Github actions (v3->v4), Spring AI https://spring.io/projects/spring-ai
ABK: Google Notebook LM https://notebooklm.google/
Alison: ChatGPT Canvas https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/, Anthropic Model Context Protocol https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
Articles:Get Started With the Neo4j Aura CLI Beta Release
Get Started With the Neo4j Aura CLI Beta Release https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/get-started-with-aura-cli-beta/
Cypher Gems in Neo4j 5 https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/cypher-gems-in-neo4j-5/
LangChain-Neo4j Partner Package: Officially Supported GraphRAG https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/langchain-neo4j-partner-package-graphrag/
 
Videos:
NODES 2024 playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvU6t-fXNeQfkpnmgMm4w5h3
Top 5 performing videos:KG Builder App: https://youtube.com/live/NbyxWAC2TLc
Importing CSV Data: https://youtube.com/live/2iYTAgXM_ug
Mastering GraphRAG: https://youtube.com/live/cbPII1Pam_M
Entity Resolution: https://youtube.com/live/GMTY78xqGXQ
Personal Knowledge Vault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7E97TSmGyI
 

Events
https://neo4j.com/events/

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(final): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AXFLYz6zug&list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvU6t-fXNeQfkpnmgMm4w5h3&index=6
Neo4j and Next.js: A Full-Stack Relationship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9PUAd_roTk&list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvU6t-fXNeQfkpnmgMm4w5h3&index=94&pp=iAQB
Neo4j GDS for Snowflake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiTA9OXHM44&list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvU6t-fXNeQfkpnmgMm4w5h3&index=96&pp=iAQB
Demystifying Noe4j With APOC and Java: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=653ecLaDhA4&list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvU6t-fXNeQfkpnmgMm4w5h3&index=45&pp=iAQB

Matrix/Neo4j references:Apoc (character in movie): https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/ApocSwitch (character in movie): https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Switch

APOC (Neo4j utility library): https://neo4j.com/labs/apoc/

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-tMnt_wyk4nwcbH
Tomaz Bratanic on GraphReader: https://towardsdatascience.com/implementing-graphreader-with-neo4j-and-langgraph-e4c73826a8b7
Tools of the Month:
Neo4j GraphRAG Python package:  https://pypi.org/project/neo4j-graphrag/
Spring Data Neo4j: https://spring.io/projects/spring-data-neo4j
Entity Linking based on Entity Resolution tutorial: https://github.com/louisguitton/spacy-lancedb-linker
https://github.com/DerwenAI/strwythura
AskNews (build news datasets) https://asknews.app/
The Sentry https://atlas.thesentry.org/azerbaijan-aliyev-empire/
Announcements / News:
Articles:GraphRAG – The Card Game https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/graphrag-card-game/
Turn Your CSVs Into Graphs Using LLMs https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/csv-into-graph-using-llm/
Detecting Bank Fraud With Neo4j: The Power of Graph Databases https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/detect-bank-fraud-neo4j-graph-database/
Cypher Performance Improvements in Neo4j 5 https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/cypher-performance-neo4j-5/
New GraphAcademy Course: Building Knowledge Graphs With LLMs https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/new-building-knowledge-graphs-llms/
Efficiently Monitor Neo4j and Identify Problematic Queries https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/monitor-and-id-problem-queries/

Videos:NODES 2023 playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvUu4hzyhWed8Avu5nSUXYrb&si=8_0sYVRYz8CqqdIc

EventsAll Neo4j events: https://neo4j.com/events/
(Nov 5) Conference (virtual): XtremeJ https://xtremej.dev/2024/schedule/
(Nov 7) Conference (virtual): NODES 2024 https://dev.neo4j.com/nodes24
(Nov 8) Conference (Austin, TX, USA): MLOps World https://mlopsworld.com/
(Nov 12) Conference (Baltimore, MD, USA): ISWC https://iswc2024.semanticweb.org/event/3715c6fc-e2d7-47eb-8c01-5fe4ac589a52/summary
(Nov 13) Meetup (Seattle, WA, USA): Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPY) - Talk night Rover https://www.meetup.com/psppython/events/303896335/?eventOrigin=group_events_list
(Nov 14) Meetup (Seattle, WA, USA): AI Workflow Essentials (with Pinecone, Neo4J, Boundary, Union) https://lu.ma/75nv6dd3
(Nov 14) Conference (Reston, VA, USA): Senzing User Conference https://senzing.com/senzing-event-calendar/
(Nov 18) Meetup (Cleveland, OH, USA): Cleveland Big Data mega-meetup https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Hadoop/
(Nov 19) Chicago Java User Group (Chicago, IL, USA): https://cjug.org/cjug-meeting-intro/#/
(Dec 3) Conference (London, UK): Linkurious Days https://resources.linkurious.com/linkurious-days-london
(Dec 10) Meetup (London, UK): ESR meetup in London by Neural Alpha
(Dec 11-13) Conference (London, UK): Connected Data London https://2024.connected-data.london/

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) https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/query-api-neo4j-aura-https/
Neo4j Python Driver 10x Faster With Rust https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/python-driver-10x-faster-with-rust/
Hybrid Retrieval for GraphRAG Applications Using the Neo4j GraphRAG Package for Python https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/hybrid-retrieval-neo4j-graphrag-package/
Vectors and Graphs: Better Together https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/vectors-graphs-better-together/
Knowledge Graphs and LLMs: Fine-Tuning vs. Retrieval-Augmented Generation https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/fine-tuning-vs-rag/
Building a Movie Recommendation System With Neo4j https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/movie-recommendation-with-neo4j/
GraphRAG Field Guide: Navigating the World of Advanced RAG Patterns https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/graphrag-field-guide-rag-patterns/
Spreading the Savings Like Mayo: How Knowledge Graphs Can Transform Invoice Data and Lower Costs https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/spread-savings-like-mayo-knowledge-graphs/
Neo4j Takes the Lead: Transforming Graph Database Management With Cypher API Versioning and Database Calendar Versioning https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/neo4j-graph-database-versioning/
Modeling Data From the Titanic https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/titanic-data-modeling/
Making Relations on the Titanic https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/titanic-relationships/
Enhancing Hybrid Retrieval With Graph Traversal Using the Neo4j GraphRAG Package for Python https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/enhance-hybrid-retrieval-neo4j-graphrag-package/
Building a GraphRAG Agent With Neo4j and Milvus https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/graphrag-agent-neo4j-milvus/

Videos:NODES 2023 playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvUu4hzyhWed8Avu5nSUXYrb&si=8_0sYVRYz8CqqdIc

EventsAll Neo4j events: https://neo4j.com/events/
(Oct 1) Conference (Denver, CO, USA): Dev2next https://www.dev2next.com/
(Oct 14-20) Conference (Sydney, Australia): South by Southwest Sydney https://www.sxswsydney.com/
(Oct 16) Conference (London, GB, UK): GraphSummit Europe https://neo4j.com/graphsummit/europe16-17/
(Oct 21-25) Conference (San Diego, CA, USA): San Diego Startup Week https://startupsd.org/san-diego-startup-week/
(Oct 22) Meetup (New York City, NY, USA): NYJavaSIG https://www.meetup.com/javasig/

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 AI https://www.cursor.com/
Tim: Neo4j LLM Graph Builder https://neo4j.com/labs/genai-ecosystem/llm-graph-builder/
Announcements / News:
Articles:Graph Databases Offer a Deeper Understanding of Organizational Risk https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/graph-database-organizational-risk/
Using Embeddings to Represent String Edit Distance in Neo4j https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/embeddings-string-edit-distance/
Build a Knowledge Graph-based Agent with Llama 3.1, NVIDIA NIM, and LangChain https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/knowledge-graph-llama-nvidia-langchain/
Entity Linking and Relationship Extraction With Relik in LlamaIndex https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/entity-linking-relationship-extraction-relik-llamaindex/
Integrating Microsoft GraphRAG into Neo4j https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/microsoft-graphrag-neo4j/
Ingesting Documents Simultaneously to Neo4j & Milvus https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/ingest-documents-neo4j-milvus/
Enriching Vector Search With Graph Traversal Using the Neo4j GenAI Package https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/graph-traversal-neo4j-genai-package/
Create a Neo4j GraphRAG Workflow Using LangChain and LangGraph https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/neo4j-graphrag-workflow-langchain-langgraph/
Introducing Concurrent Writes to Cypher Subqueries https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/concurrent-writes-cypher-subqueries/
Running Neo4j on a Commodore 64 https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/neo4j-commodore-64/
Change Data Capture and Neo4j Connector for Confluent and Apache Kafka Go GA https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/change-data-capture-cdc-ga/

Videos:NODES 2023 playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Hl4pk2FsvUu4hzyhWed8Avu5nSUXYrb&si=8_0sYVRYz8CqqdIc

EventsAll Neo4j events: https://neo4j.com/events/
(Sep 9) Conference (San Francisco, CA, USA): Pre-AI Conference Hack Day:  https://lu.ma/bsype6t6?tk=1dgMCa
(Sep 9-11) Conference (San Francisco, CA, USA): AI Conference: https://aiconference.com/
(Sep 10) Meetup (San Francisco, CA, USA): AI Tools HackNight: https://lu.ma/ozt7jtq5
(Sep 12) Meetup (San Jose, CA, USA): AI & Tech Talks:  https://lu.ma/jjgnoqik?tk=sMOLyE
(Sep 24-26) Conference (Dallas, TX, USA): JConf https://2024.jconf.dev/
(Sep 30-Oct 3) Conference (Denver, CO, USA): dev2next https://www.dev2next.com/
(Oct - TBD) Meetup (Charlotte, NC, USA): Data Science Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-Charlotte/