Humans Think in Graphy Ways – Naomi Arnold and Ben Steer on Raphtory

#13: Naomi Arnold and Ben Steer join Arfon and Abby to discuss their work on Raphtory, THE temporal graph engine for Rust and Python. Other topics include: pomegranates are the graphiest fruit, tracking ship to ship trading, and funding for open source projects through the Tools, Practices and Systems program at the Alan Turing Institute.

Naomi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University London. Ben is the CTO and Co-founder of Pometry.

You can follow Naomi on Twitter/X @narnolddd. You can follow Ben on Twitter/X @Raphtory, raphtory.com, and pometry.com.

Episode Highlights:

• [00:00] - Introduction to Open Source for Researchers
• [00:19] - Meet the Guests: Naomi Arnold and Ben Steer
• [01:49] - Understanding Temporal Graphs with Raphtory
• [04:40] - The Origin Story of Raphtory
• [08:05] - Naming and Evolution of Raphtory and Pometry
• [12:47] - Raphtory's Applications and Use Cases
• [19:00] - Transition from Scala to Rust
• [24:47] - Open Source Journey and Contributions
• [35:01] - Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Links:

• JOSS paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05940
• Raphtory repository: https://github.com/Pometry/Raphtory
• Naomi on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/narnolddd
• Raphtory on Twitter/X https://twitter.com/raphtory
• Raphtory website: https://www.raphtory.com/
• Pometry website: https://www.pometry.com/
• The Journal of Open Source Software (Twitter/X, blog)
• @arfon on (fosstodon, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
• @abbycabs on (Twitter/X, hachyderm, bsky, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
• Donate to JOSS

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