Graph Bootcamp

Graph bootcamp is a lab-based graph systems workshop that teaches students how to model domains as graphs and solve domain-specific problems using graph traversals. All developers can gain value from attending, especially if they’ve been solving data problems exclusively with relational database technology. This workshop is all about heads-down development: light on one-to-many lecturing and heavy on coding and solution discovery. Students will use an open source graph stack to solve real-world problems over provided data sets (discussed below). Students will leave the bootcamp with code and inspiration pushing them to solve graph-related problems in their organization.

Event Locations and Dates

Graph Minicamp: Palo Alto Summer 2011 – June 22, 2011 (6pm-8pm) [more information]
Graph Bootcamp: Chicago Summer 2011 – June 24, 2011 (9am-5pm) [more information]

Steal My Face

The Grateful Dead was an American band formed during the tumultuous times of San Francisco’s 1960′s psychedelic movement. Using a graph representation of their concert behavior, we will explore the band’s music to automatically generate a greatest hits album, determine which songs and band members the fans loved, and if at any time you get stuck, don’t worry, Help is on the Way.

Dinner and a Movie

There is this, there is that, and don’t forget that if you look right here, smack! With so many choices in this world, how do we pick what is right for us? Using an ever growing data set of bootcamp attendee movie ratings, you will build a movie recommendation engine. However, this won’t be you’re standard engine, we will explore numerous graph algorithms to create a multi-themed recommendation engine.

American Greed

“Take your seats everyone. Graph bootcamp will be starting shortly.” When you hear these words, the bootcamp team will be living it up with your registration money on a beach in Mexico. This will be your first lesson in American greed: there are no limits when it comes to making money. Your second lesson will be to explore the insanity of Enron‘s executives and their internal email chains represented as a graph.

The Tower of Babel

A cat is related to hat, to head, to toe–down. Using a word graph, we will see how words relate to each other and explore problems in taxonomy traversing, word similarity determination, and finding pre-determined categories from adhoc user queries.