The Graph Show
Launched in 2020, the first show devoted to graph databases
There's so much going on in the graph community now - new papers, new tools, projects, products, use cases - it's hard to keep up with it all. We're turning the mic on and asking our friends to share the latest.
The first episode went out on November 1, 2020. Host Joshua Shinavier, co-founder of what is now Apache TinkerPop, interviewed Jans Aasman, creator of AllegroGraph, on property graphs versus RDF. Josh had worked for Jans years before.
Jans Aasman : Property Graphs vs. RDF Graphs
Episode 1, November 1, 2020. Watch on YouTube
Jans Aasman (Wikipedia / LinkedIn) is a Ph.D. psychologist and expert in Cognitive Science, as well as CEO of Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and provider of the graph database AllegroGraph. As both a scientist and CEO, Dr. Aasman continues to break ground in Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs, working hand in hand with numerous Fortune 500 organizations as well as US and foreign governments. Jans authored an IEEE article on Enterprise Knowledge Graphs.
Dr. Aasman spent a large part of his professional life in telecommunications research, specializing in applied Artificial Intelligence projects and intelligent user interfaces. He gathered patents in speech technology, multimodal user interaction, and recommendation engines while developing precursor technology for tablets and personal assistants. He was also a professor in the Industrial Design department of the Technical University of Delft.
Denise Gosnell : Graph Thinking / The Practitioner's Guide to Graph Data
Episode 2. Watch on YouTube
Dr. Denise Gosnell, co-author of The Practitioner's Guide to Graph Databases, first spoke at Graph Day back in 2016. As a frequently requested speaker, she appeared many times since. Check out her 2017 talk, Graphs vs Tables: Ready? Fight!, and her 2018 talk, Everything is not a Graph Problem. Denise appeared as part of our Women In Graph series.
Ryan Wisnesky : From Knowledge Graphs to Knowledge Categories
Episode 3. Watch on YouTube
Ryan Wisnesky (LinkedIn) obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics and computer science from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University, where he studied the design and implementation of provably correct software systems. Previously he was a postdoctoral associate in the MIT department of mathematics, where he developed the categorical query language CQL.
Ryan leads open-source and commercial development of CQL as CTO of Conexus AI, and maintains an active collaboration with the information-integration department of IBM Research, where he contributed to the Clio, Orchid, and HIL projects. Ryan also organizes the Category Theory and Applications Meetup group.
Alastair Green : GQL, the proposed query language for property graphs
Ruben Verborgh : What is a Personal Knowledge Graph / The Solid Project
Olaf Hartig : RDF-star
Episode 6, April 20, 2021. Watch on YouTube
Olaf Hartig is Associate Professor at Linköping University and author of the RDF* proposal. RDF-star, née RDF*, is part of the RDF-DEV community group.
Stephen Mallette : TinkerPop
Episode 7, July 22, 2021. Watch on YouTube
Stephen Mallette is an Apache TinkerPop committer and PMC chair - which makes this the episode where the project's current steward sits down with one of its co-founders.
Scott Meyer : The Liquid Graph Database
Episode 9, August 22, 2022. Watch on YouTube
Scott Meyer of LinkedIn is the creator of the Liquid graph database, which sits behind LinkedIn's Economic Graph.
Leo Meyerovich : Graph Intelligence
Episode 10, August 3, 2022. Watch on YouTube
Leo Meyerovich is the founder of Graphistry. Leo wrote about graph intelligence with Ben Lorica on the Graphistry blog.
Tomás Sabat : TypeDB
Episode 11, November 4, 2022. Watch on YouTube
Tomás Sabat of Vaticle, creators of TypeDB and TypeQL.
Your host: Joshua Shinavier
Joshua Shinavier is a primordial being of the graph database domain. As co-founder of what is now Apache TinkerPop, Josh contributed the first common APIs for graph databases, as well as the original TinkerPop query language, which influenced Gremlin. Josh also created the first tools to align the property graph and RDF data models, starting with neo4j-rdf-sail in 2008.
Josh holds a PhD in computer science from the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he took the opportunity to explore the strange no man's land between graphs, cognition, and augmented reality. He feels, now as always, that the research, business, and open source communities have a lot to learn from each other with respect to graphs and knowledge representation.
The Graph Show is produced by Global Data Geeks. The full archive is on the Global Data Geeks YouTube channel.