Fueling innovative software
July 15-18, 2019
Portland, OR

Graph algorithms: Predict real-world behavior

Amy Hodler (Neo4j), William Lyon (Neo4j)
11:00am11:40am Thursday, July 18, 2019
Secondary topics:  Data Driven
Average rating: ****.
(4.70, 10 ratings)

Who is this presentation for?

  • Developers and data scientists




Learn how graph algorithms can help you predict real-world behavior and why an averages approach fails to describe group dynamics. Graphs provide a method to truly store and analyze information with the relationships that connect the data. Algorithms further deepen our understanding of data through aggregation and perspectives to help developers make accurate and valuable business decisions for the future based on existing scenarios.

Amy Hodler and William Lyon provide an overview of which algorithms to apply for various types of optimal paths, influence in a network, and community detection. They outline use cases that span across industries including recommendations, resiliency planning, fraud prevention, and traffic engineering and routing (such as IP and call). This all comes alive for you through a live demo, where you’ll see what kinds of information you can retrieve and decisions you can make based on results from different algorithms and sets of data.

What you'll learn

  • Learn to recognize whether or not you have a graph analytics problem and how to get started
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Amy Hodler



William Lyon


William Lyon is a software engineer on the developer relations team at Neo4j, where he works primarily on integrating the Neo4j graph database with other technologies. Previously, William was a software developer for several startups in the real estate, quantitative finance, and predictive API spaces. William holds a master’s degree from the University of Montana.