Social graph utilities in Heroku

1. about

1.1. Cory Mcllroy

1.2. Appirio, CloudSpokes architect

1.3. @coryio

2. Visualizations of neo4j data

2.1. keylines.com/neo4j

2.2. linkurio.us

2.3. d3.js

3. neo4j

3.1. optimized for highly connected data

3.1.1. vs RDBMS which is optimized for aggregated data

3.2. REST or java API

3.3. their web site is very informative - try their tutorials

3.4. available as a free add-on on Heroku

4. Graph DB (neo4j) provides graph operations

4.1. eg, shortest path