William Lyon's Blog

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• Deploying Single Instance Neo4j On A VPS With Custom Domain
  November 16, 2025

  A complete guide to deploying Neo4j Enterprise 5.x on any VPS (Digital Ocean, AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises) with S...

• A Look At Graph Visualization With Sigma React
  August 29, 2025

  Building interactive graph visualizations with Sigma React - from basic setup to advanced customizations

• Finding The Perfect Christmas Tree With USFS Motor Vehicle User Map Data, QGIS, & SedonaDB
  December 04, 2023

  Using aerial imagery and Spatial SQL to explore Forest Service road networks

• Why I Joined Wherobots Plus A Look At Apache Sedona
  October 18, 2023

  My take on the exciting world of spatial database technology plus a look at getting started with Apache Sedona.

• Importing Overture Maps Data Into Neo4j
  September 25, 2023

  A look at loading points of interest from the Overture Maps public dataset into the Neo4j graph database, plus writin...

• Introducing The Spatial Cypher Cheat Sheet
  June 22, 2023

  A resource for working with geospatial data in Neo4j.

• Spatial Search Functionality With Neo4j
  January 03, 2023

  Radius Distance, Bounding Box, and Point in Polygon Search With Graphs

• Graph Data Visualization With GraphQL & react-force-graph
  September 29, 2021

  Building Interactive Graph Data Visualizations With GraphQL

• Building A GraphQL Server With Next.js
  July 27, 2021

  Using Next.js API Routes And Deploying To Vercel & Neo4j Aura

• No Cost Data Scraping With GitHub Actions And Neo4j Aura
  July 20, 2021

  Using The Flat Data GitHub Action To Import Data From The Lobste.rs News Site

• Adding Frontend Features With Next.js, Chakra UI, & Apollo Client
  March 21, 2021

  Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 6

• Building A Responsive Navigation Bar And Podcast Episode Feed With The Chakra UI React Component Library
  March 21, 2021

  Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 5

• Getting Started With Next.js and GraphQL Authentication
  January 24, 2021

  Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 4

• Parsing And Importing XML With Neo4j: Adding Episodes and Playlists To GRANDcast.FM Podcast App
  January 09, 2021

  Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 3

• GRANDcast.FM: User Auth & Podcast Subscribe Functionality
  December 11, 2020

  Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 2

• Podcast Search GraphQL API With Neo4j And The Podcast Index
  December 06, 2020

  Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 1

• Building An Election Night Dashboard With Neo4j Graph Apps: Bloom, Charts, And Neomap
  November 28, 2020

  Using low code graph apps to build data visualizations with Neo4j.

• Building A Location Aware Endpoint Using Neo4j And Cloudflare Workers
  November 20, 2020

  Using the new Jolt format with HTTP in Neo4j 4.2 with edge network handlers.

• Geocoding Paradise Papers Addresses In Neo4j To Build Interactive Geographical Data Visualizations
  November 28, 2017

  This post explores how to build spatial data visualizations using address data from the Paradise Papers leak of offsh...

• Applying NLP and Entity Extraction To The Russian Twitter Troll Tweets In Neo4j (and more Python!)
  November 15, 2017

  Natural language processing (NLP) techniques like entity extraction can be used to help make sense of a large text co...