Intro to Knowledge Graphs with Grakn and Graql

## Introduction to Knowledge Graphs with Grakn and Graql

Grakn is a distributed knowledge graph: a logical database to organise large and complex networks of data as one body of knowledge. Grakn provides the knowledge engineering tools for developers to easily leverage the power of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning when building complex systems. Ultimately, Grakn serves as the knowledge-base foundation for cognitive and intelligent systems.

Graql is Grakn's query language. It provides an expressive knowledge schema language through an enhanced entity-relationship model, transactional queries that perform deductive reasoning in real-time, and analytical queries with native distributed Pregel and MapReduce algorithms. Graql provides a strong abstraction over low-level data constructs and complex relationships.

## James Fletcher, Principal Scientist @ Grakn Labs

James is the Principal Scientist at Grakn, primarily working on educating the world on how to use a knowledge graph such as Grakn to build cognitive/intelligent systems. For this, he is implementing examples as templates and ideas for how clients and community members can innovative in their own specific projects.

With a background in Computer Vision, having co-founded his own startup in veterinary diagnostics, James's priority is to research the new kinds of intelligent systems that are enabled by using Grakn as a knowledge graph.

## Grakn Labs is a team of people driven by a purpose: to solve the world's most complex problems, through knowledge engineering. We are the inventors of the Grakn knowledge-graph and the Graql query language. Our technology helps organisations in various industries, including Life Sciences, Defence & Security, Financial Services and Robotics, to build intelligent systems that we believe will change the world. From financial analytics to drug discovery, cyber threat detection to robotics disaster recovery, our technology empowers engineers around the world to tackle a higher order of complexity in knowledge, and solve the world's most complex problems.

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