I am just dreaming this does not exist and needs to be refined in a later stage. Fast traversals: Jumping from one vertex of the graph to another should be possible in O(1) Online processing: “Standard queries” (<–whatever this means) should compute within miliseconds. As an example: Local recommendations e.g. similar users in a bipartite …
Tag: neo4j
Google Pregel vs Signal Collect for distributed Graph Processing – pros and cons
One of the reading club assignments was to read the paper about Google Pregel and Signal Collect, compare them and point out pros and cons of both approaches. So after I read both papers as well as Claudios overview on Pregel clones and took some notes here are my thoughts but first a short summary …
Open Source Facebook music streaming App for free download!
In an earlier post I have explained the need for a Facebook streaming app that has to be enhanced with some features in order to create viral word of mouth effects. Together with Yann Leretaille and Robert Naumann we programmed the facebook API and developed such an app for my band In legend. Today ( …
Download Google n gram data set and neo4j source code for storing it
In the end of September I discovered an amazing data set which is provided by Google! It is called the Google n gram data set. Even thogh the english wikipedia article about ngrams needs some clen up it explains nicely what an ngram is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram The data set is available in several languages and I …
Graphity: An efficient Graph Model for Retrieving the Top-k News Feeds for users in social networks
UPDATE: the paper got accepted at SOCIALCOM2012 and the source code and data sets are online especially the source code of the graphity server software is now online! UPDATE II: Download the paper (11 Pages from Social Com 2012 with Co Authors: Thomas Gottron, Jonas Kunze, Ansgar Scherp and Steffen Staab) and the slides I already said …
11 lessons learnt after my first scientific paper was submitted
During the last month my blog was rather quite. I dicided that I was aiming to submit my first paper to a top conference with a deadline of november first. Well besides the fact that I almost forgot about the fact that I also have a private life – as well as my collegues helping …
neo4j based social news feed demo on wikipedia graph running
UPDATE: you can find an evaluation of the following blog post and idea on: http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/graphity-an-efficient-graph-model-for-retrieving-the-top-k-news-feeds-for-users-in-social-networks/ Hey everyone I can finally demonstrate the neo4j and gwt system that I have been blogging about over the last weeks here and here. But please find the demo under the following adress: http://gwt.metalcon.de/GWT-Modelling The code will be available soon! …
Amazed by neo4j, gwt and my apache tomcat webserver
edit: the demo is finally online but on a different data set though: check out the demo and read about the new data set. An evaluation of graphity can be found here Besides reading papers I am currently implementing the infrastructure of my social news stream for the new metalcon version. For the very first …
Data structure for Social news streams on Graph data bases
UPDATE: look at http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/graphity for a more scientific survey and evaluation of this data structure. Ok you guys did not hear much from me most recently. I was on vaccation and then on summer school and I worked on my first scientific poster and on a talk which will hopefully ontribute to my PhD thesis. …
Time lines and news streams: Neo4j is 377 times faster than MySQL
Over the last weeks I did some more work on neo4j. And I am ready to present some more results on the speed (In my use case neo4j outperformed MySQL by a factor of 377 ! That is more than two magnitudes). As known one part of my PhD thesis is to create a social newsstream …