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Andreas Kollegger Product Designer

@akollegger

2005: Lusaka, Zambia

2005: Lusaka, Zambia

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

2005: Lusaka, Zambia

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

2005: Lusaka, Zambia

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

2005: Lusaka, Zambia

SNOMED?

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

2005: Lusaka, Zambia

SNOMED? LOINC?

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

2005: Lusaka, Zambia

SNOMED? LOINC? Non-English terms and local idioms?

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

2005: Lusaka, Zambia

SNOMED? LOINC? Non-English terms and local idioms?

ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosismotor neurone disease

Charcot disease

MND

ICD-10G12.2

ICD-9335.20

OMIM105400

Categories and Indicators and Related Conditions and Treatments and Drugs?

Hey, who wants to come to Sweden to hack on Neo4j for 6 months?

2000: Sweden

2000: Sweden

2000: Sweden

2000: Sweden

2000: Sweden

Graphs are not a new idea, just the right idea right now.

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Graphs are everywhere!

Neo Technology, Inc Confidential

NOSQL == Not Only SQL

Hint: Relationships Matter

Put all of us into a database. !

Ask an RDBMS: “What's the average age of everyone here?”

!Ask Neo4j:

“Who should I get to know better?”

Member Group

Member Group

143 Andreas

Member Group

143 Andreas326 Stockholm

725 San Francisco

981 Boston

Member GroupMember_Group

143 Andreas326 Stockholm

725 San Francisco

981 Boston

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Andreas

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uid: ABK name: Andreas

uid: STK where: Stockholm

uid: SFO where: San Francisco

uid: BOS where: Boston

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since: 2009

since: 2013

since: 2012

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uid: ABK name: Andreas

uid: STK where: Stockholm

uid: SFO where: San Francisco

uid: BOS where: Boston

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since: 2009

since: 2013

since: 2012

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What about the wolves?!? Tell me about the wolves!

How Wolves Change Rivers: Research Results

How Wolves Change Rivers: Known Influences Modeled as a Graph

How Wolves Change Rivers: Known Influences Modeled as a Graph

How Wolves Change Rivers: Query for Trophic Cascades

!MATCH path = (:Animal {Entity:"Wolves"})-[*]->(:Landscape {Entity:"Rivers"})WITH extract(node IN nodes(path) | node.Yellowstone) AS factor, rand() AS numberRETURN factor AS How_Wolves_Affect_RiverStabilityORDER BY numberLIMIT 5

How Wolves Change Rivers: Query for Trophic Cascades

!MATCH path = (:Animal {Entity:"Wolves"})-[*]->(:Landscape {Entity:"Rivers"})WITH extract(node IN nodes(path) | node.Yellowstone) AS factor, rand() AS numberRETURN factor AS How_Wolves_Affect_RiverStabilityORDER BY numberLIMIT 5

Thank you!Think about relationships,

Follow paths, Find your graph