This week’s featured community member is Alex F. Mills.

Alex is the Academic Director, Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration at the Zicklin School of Business in New York.

Alex studies design and control problems in service operations management. His research interests include healthcare operations, customer/patient type identification and imperfect information (triage), the impact of disruptions and resource limitations on system operations and recovery, and the impact of economic incentives on decision-making in healthcare.

Alex presented The Relationships that Define a Resilient Supply Chain at the Neo4j Connections: Graphs for Risk Mitigation in Supply Chains event earlier this year. In the talk, Alex goes through a variety of different supply chains, explaining their strengths and weaknesses, and showing why relationships are at the heart of this domain.

His talk was so popular that it’s been included in the Neo4j Connections: Best of 2020 Sessions that will run on 17th December 2020.

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Our video this week is from Florent Biville’s live stream.

In this episode, Florent is joined by Erik Solender, the maintainer of GoGM, a Golang object graph mapper for Neo4j. Erik starts by explaining why he built GoGM, before showing how to model a simple domain using the library.

Florent also wrote a blog post a couple of weeks ago, in which he summarised some of his previous streams about Neo4j and Go.

In Tomaz Bratanic’s latest blog post, he builds a search and recommendation engine on top of the ArXiv dataset using graph data science techniques.

In the first half of the post, Tomaz takes us through various techniques for cleaning the data – converting text from Latex to UTF-8 encoding and removing duplicate entities. He then does some exploratory analysis of the data before using the GDS Library to analyse the author and citation networks.

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Lukas Böhres shares an end-to-end workflow of setting up a fully interconnected pairing of Neo4j and Spark using the recently released Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark.

After deploying Neo4j and Spark instances in Azure, Lukas shows how to use the connector to both load data from Neo4j into Spark and write data from Spark to Neo4j.

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• • We launched a 4.0 version of the Learn how to apply graph algorithms to enhance a Web application online training course.
  • Nicolas Mervaillie has been going through the Advent of code puzzles with Neo4j and Cypher.
  • And so has Michael Simons.
  • Gerrit Meier published a new episode of his Spring Data Neo4j. In this episode, he shows how to use Spring Boot with the Neo4j Java Driver and Spring Data Neo4j.
  • Fernando López Bello recorded a talk about a paper that he wrote, titled From medical records to research papers: A literature analysis pipeline for supporting medical genomic diagnosis processes, which relies on Neo4j.
  • Christian Miles wrote a blog post showing how to visualise Fraud with Neo4j and the GRANDstack.

Shyam Pratap Singh is a big fan of the Dark series on Netflix and has created a Neo4j graph based on the series.

After building the dataset, Shyam makes sense of the data using plain Cypher queries, the in-built shortest path algorithm, and clustering algorithms from the Graph Data Science Library.

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My favourite tweet this week was by David Bates:

Day 7 of #AdventOfCode I decided to break out @neo4j to solve it since the questions related to relationships between objects. Not gonna lie, that was a simple on the surface but tough when you got into it problem. But now I also have pretty graphs. #adventofcode2020 pic.twitter.com/S4VdcoIXYq

— davidbates (@davidbates) December 8, 2020

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