Vancouver Haskell Meetup

Neo4j w Peter Neubauer and Andreas Kollegger + Scala, Haskell, Erlang & R intros

July 27, 2011 · 6:00 PM
Mozilla Labs Vancouver

July 27th is going to be the hottest programming night of the summer:

Neo4j + Haskell + R + Erlang + Scala + Beverages = Good Times

For the inaugural meetup of the Graph Database Group, Peter Neubauer and Andreas Kollegger have come all the way from Sweden via America to demo Neo4j plus describe the best uses for this exciting technology including solving problems related to social graphs.

Graph databases provide a richer data model by storing all data in a network of nodes and relationships. And that is hot! For example, in social networks it's easier to use a graph to represent friend relationships and do queries like "get me all the friends of my friends friends".

The next wave of applications based on recommendation engines and social data will likely utilize graph technology like Neo4j.

Before the Neo4j talk we will also have 10 min intro presentations on 4 functional languages that are suitable for interacting with graph databases like Neo4j. This is a great opportunity to get exposure at a high level to the strengths and weaknesses of each language.

Erlang - Suitable for concurrent, distributed systems with Ken Pratt

Scala - A concise, elegant and type-safe language with Paul Lambert

R - Statistically explore data sets with Tavis Rudd

Haskell - Purely functional language with Roman Gonzalez

Bonus: 5 minute teaser on deploying Neo4j in a startup environment with Michael from NextFave

All this plus: Free Beer! That's right, the guys from Neo4j are going to be supplying beverages for the evening as well! Come on out, have a great time and learn a bunch.

Big thanks to Mozilla for hosting us in their space and Patrick Fitzgerald for sparking this event.

See you there :)

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Casey

I forgot to ask does "Neo4j" mean the graph dB is programmed in "J". :)

0 · July 28, 2011
Casey

I'll make that anonymous. :D

0 · July 28, 2011
Kamil Kisiel

The meetup was great. Thanks Peter for taking the time to give such a great presentation. Thanks to the organizers for putting this on.

0 · July 28, 2011
Tommy Chan

I have a request to make...could the presenters post a link to their presentations? That would be great, thanks.

0 · July 28, 2011