Exploring Election Results with Neo4J
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The document discusses the use of Neo4j and Clojure to explore election results, highlighting challenges with poorly formatted open data from UK elections. It emphasizes the advantages of Neo4j, such as intuitive querying and good framework support, alongside the speaker's experiences as a software developer. A practical demonstration is provided, illustrating the visualization of election data.
Exploring Election Results with Neo4J
- 1. E X P L O R I N G E L E C T I O N R E S U LT S W I T H N E O 4 J N O S Q L M A T T E R S 2 0 1 4 : L I G H T N I N G TA L K
- 2. W H O A M I ? • David Simons • @SwamWithTurtles github.com/SwamWithTurtles • Software Developer • …for a bespoke solutions provider Softwire. (Hint: we’re currently hiring) • … for fun
- 4. N O O P E N D ATA F O R U K E L E C T I O N S R E S U LT S T H E P R O B L E M
- 5. A C A D E M I C W E B S I T E C O N TA I N I N G B A D LY F O R M AT T E D D ATA D ATA S C R A P E R ( P Y T H O N ) N E O 4 J ! ! R E S T A P I E N D P O I N T ( C L O J U R E )
- 6. W H Y C L O J U R E ? • Tim dared me to.
- 7. W H Y C L O J U R E ? • But in retrospect… • Good native library support: • Leiningen • Ring (for HTTP/REST) Neocons (for Neo4J) Incanter (for Stats)
- 8. W H Y N E O 4 J ? • “Whiteboardability” • Good framework support for a range of languages • Closely matches our model • Intuitive “Cypher” Query Language to do graph based queries
- 9. L E T ’ S S E E I T I N A C T I O N
- 11. Results of 2010 General Election
- 12. Has anyone ever got no votes? (Sorry Mr. Gallagher)
- 13. N E O 4 J I S A W E S O M E F O R Q U I C K D E V W O R K
- 14. T H A N K S ! David Simons david.simons@softwire.com @SwamWithTurtles Github: SwamWithTurtles ! Code: (Warning: not yet in stable/ workable version!) github.com/pimterry/ national-hack-the- government-2014