Hands on intro to NoSQL - Neo4j

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Location:

Seacliff C

Abstract:

In this half day workshop we'll look at the use cases for graph databases, and we'll install neo4j, the most broadly adopted graph database available. We will also look at data modeling with graph databases and we'll get some hands on experience with the declarative "cypher" query language - think "SQL for graphs".

Pre-requisites The only background for this workshop is some programming experience. You will get much more out of the workshop if you bring a laptop and either a power brick or enough battery power to run your laptop for the three hours.

Outline

An introduction to graphs
Installing Neo4j
An introduction to cypher
Data modeling for graphs
Use cases for Neo4j

Peter Bell

Peter Bell is co-founder and CTO of Speak Geek - a company that helps non-technical business people to hire and manage developers more effectively. He runs the node.js meetup in New York and is a Javascript fan, He is a contract member of the Github training team, an evangelist for hackNY and a co-founder of CTO school - an organization that is helping to build the next generation of technical leaders. He is writing a book for Pearson on Git and Github recipes and is a regular presenter at technical and business conferences worldwide. He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, Methods and Tools, NFJS the magazine, the Open Source Journal, Groovy Mag and a range of other journals and practitioner publications.