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Whether it’s ethically right or wrong to investigate deep into suspects’ networks of connections, the NSA certainly has the processing power to do it. “Three hops” away isn’t much when you… Read more »
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Whether it’s ethically right or wrong to investigate deep into suspects’ networks of connections, the NSA certainly has the processing power to do it. “Three hops” away isn’t much when you… Read more »
Like every social media company, Pinterest had to build its own graph in order to keep track of how all its users — and their interests — are related. Here’s how… Read more »
Facebook just rolled out its Graph Search tool to everyone who uses the social network in American English, allowing many more people to experience a top use case of the graph… Read more »
Graph databases are becoming popular vehicles for constructing recommendation systems and other applications, and engineers are aiming to make the systems easier to adopt. Read more »
Graph databases and graph-processing applications have been popping up all over the place lately, and now they’re starting to go commercial. On Tuesday, popular open source project GraphLab joined the ranks… Read more »
Facebook has built a new open source tool for benchmarking graph databases, called LinkBench. And although the chances are your infrastructure and workloads look nothing like Facebook’s, the good news is… Read more »
Medical researchers are using a mathematical process similar to Google PageRank in order to identify organs most likely to spread lung cancer throughout the human body. Read more »
Facebook Director of Engineering Lars Rasmussen held an Ask Me Anything session of Reddit on Thursday to talk about Graph Search. Here’s what he had to say about the infrastructure underlying… Read more »
Gravity, a startup that personalizes reader content for web publishers, is opening up its recommendation engine to anyone that wants to use it. Considering the increasing importance of personalization online, this… Read more »
A startup called Syapse is trying to bring the world of “omics” — the study of all our genomes, biomes, proteomes and other “omes” — under control with a new data… Read more »