This Week in Neo4j – Data Journalism NYPD, Django Admin, Visualization Talks, CEO Podcast, Write Performance, Java GraphQL
Blog post from Neo4j
The newsletter and blog cover various topics related to Neo4j, a graph database. The featured community member is Charles Chen, who shares his journey with graph databases and the value of Cypher, a pattern-based approach for reading and writing graph data. The newsletter also highlights the use of graphs in investigative journalism, such as analyzing police misconduct cases, and features talks from the Visualization Track at NODES 2021. Additionally, there are updates on Django neomodel, which now supports automatic CRUD forms for Neo4j databases, and a discussion on GraphQL backends in Java, including a showcase of the `neo4j-graphql-java` library. Other topics include write performance improvements for relationship updates, research assistant work with Dataiku and Linkurious, and a demo of rendering graphs in 3D for VR applications using Unreal Engine.