Slides from the Lightning Talk I gave at NoSQL Matters 2014 in Cologne. Motivation and examples of the attempt to open the UK's previous election results.

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

10. Small subgraph visualised

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