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October 11, 2012

Using (Spring Data) Neo4j for the Hubway Data Challenge [Boston Biking]

Filed under: Challenges,Data,Dataset,Graphs,Neo4j,Networks,Spring — Patrick Durusau @ 12:33 pm

Using (Spring Data) Neo4j for the Hubway Data Challenge by Michael Hunger.

From the post:

Using Spring Data Neo4j it was incredibly easy to model and import the Hubway Challenge dataset into a Neo4j graph database, to make it available for advanced querying and visualization.

The Challenge and Data

Tonight @graphmaven pointed me to the boston.com article about the Hubway Data Challenge.

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Hubway is a bike sharing service which is currently expanding worldwide. In the Data challenge they offer the CSV-data of their 95 Boston stations and about half a million bike rides up until the end of September. The challenge is to provide answers to some posted questions and develop great visualizations (or UI’s) for the Hubway data set. The challenge is also supported by MAPC (Metropolitan Area Planning Council).

Useful import tips for data into Neo4j and on modeling this particular dataset.

Not to mention the resulting database as well!

PS: From the challenge site:

Submission will open here on Friday, October 12, 2012.

Deadline

MIDNIGHT (11:59 p.m.) on Halloween,
Wednesday, October 31, 2012.

Winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 7, 2012.

Prizes:

  • A one-year Hubway membership
  • Hubway T-shirt
  • Bern helmet
  • A limited edition Hubway System Map—one of only 61 installed in the original Hubway stations.

For other details, see the challenge site.

February 9, 2012

Spring and Scala (Scala User Group London talk)

Filed under: Scala,Spring — Patrick Durusau @ 4:29 pm

Spring and Scala (Scala User Group London talk) by Jan Machacek.

From the post:

Many thanks to all who came to my Spring in Scala talk. The video is now available at Skills Matters website, I am adding the slides in PDF the source code on Github and links to the other posts that explain in more detail the topics I mentioned in the talk.

It would be very nice if this becomes a tradition for Skills Matters presentations. Video, slides, source code and a post with links to further resources.

Watch the presentation, download the slides and source code and read this post carefully. You won’t be disappointed.

Description of the presentation:

In this Spring in Scala talk, Jan Machacek will start by comparing Scala to the other languages on the Java platform. Find out that Scala code gets compiled to regular Java bytecode, making it accessible to your Spring code. You will also learn what functional programming means and how to see & apply the patterns of functional programming in what we would call enterprise code. In addition to being functional language, Scala is strongly typed language.

The second part of the talk will therefore explore the principles of type systems. You will find out what polymorphic functions are, and what the Scala wizards mean when they talk about type covariance and contravariance. Throughout the talk, there will be plenty of code examples comparing the Spring bean in Java with their new form in Scala; together with plentiful references to the ever-growing Scala ecosystem, the talk will give you inspiration & guidance on using Scala in your Spring applications. Come over and find your functional mojo!

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