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William Lyon

Personal blog · lyonwj.com/blog · on HN as johnymontanadataprogramming

William Lyon's personal blog at lyonwj.com covers data and programming. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Analyzing the Graph of Thrones”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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32mentions?
9HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only HN comment links to an interactive heatmap of geocoded Paradise Papers addresses, built in Neo4j. The comment does not discuss the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

I work on graph intelligence at Neo4j. I write about software, startups, and data — you'll find blog posts, videos, and other projects here

The author on HN?

johnymontana · 290 karma · member since 2011

Building Graph Intelligence @ Neo4j lyonwj.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Analyzing the Graph of Thrones
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-27
  2. A Resource for Working with Geospatial Data in Neo4j
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-27
  3. Using Neo4j Spatial and Mapbox to search for businesses by location
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-08
  4. Geocoding Paradise Papers Addresses in Neo4j for Geographical Data Visualization
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. The map itself http://www.lyonwj.com/pp-viz/heatmap/

    Comment linking /pp-viz/heatmap/

    on “Geocoding Paradise Papers Addresses in Neo4j for Geographical Data Visualization”
  2. Submitted Geocoding Paradise Papers Addresses in Neo4j for Geographical Data Visualization as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Analyzing the Graph of Thrones as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Combining the BuzzFeed Trumpworld Graph with Government Contract Data in Neo4j as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted No Cost Data Scraping with GitHub Actions and Neo4j Aura as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Geocoding Paradise Papers Addresses in Neo4j to Build Interactive Visualizations as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Analyzing a Local Startup Ecosystem with Mattermark, GraphQL, Apollo, and Neo4j as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Crawling APIs Using Neo4j – Building the Star Wars Graph as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Natural Language Processing with Neo4j – Mining Paradigmatic Word Associations as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Content Recommendation from Links Shared on Twitter Using Neo4j and Python as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted A Resource for Working with Geospatial Data in Neo4j as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Graph Data Visualization With GraphQL and react-force-graph as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Building a GraphQL Server with Next.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Scraping Russian Twitter Trolls with Python, Neo4j, and GraphQL as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Applying NLP and Entity Extraction to the Russian Twitter Troll Tweets as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Scraping Russian Twitter Trolls with Python, Neo4j, and GraphQL as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Using Neo4j Spatial Procedures to Analyze US Congressional Data as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Congressional PageRank – Analyzing US Congress with Neo4j and Apache Spark as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Introducing Legis-Graph – US Congressional Data with Govtrack and Neo4j as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Building A Tweet Ranking Web App With Neo4j as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Visualizing Correlates Of War Data With Leaflet.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted A Look at Graph Visualization with React Sigma as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Importing Overture Maps Data into Neo4j as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Spatial Cypher Cheat Sheet: A Resource for Working with Geospatial Data in Neo4j as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Building a GraphQL Server with Next.js API Routes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Building a Location Aware Endpoint Using Neo4j and Cloudflare Workers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Analyzing the Graph of Thrones with Neo4j as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Using Neo4j Spatial and Mapbox to search for businesses by location as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Using Neo4j Spatial and Mapbox to search for businesses by location as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Mapping The World's Airports With Neo4j Spatial And OpenFlights – Part 1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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