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Washington DC Lucene/Solr Hackday
A day to hack on Lucene, Solr and associated applications and tools with a group of other search enthusiasts
How You Can Use Hello LTR - The Learning to Rank Sandbox
Hello LTR is a framework that lets you plugin your data to easily build and test Learning to Rank models in Solr or Elasticsearch. Try it Out!
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Hello LTR! Learning to Rank Training
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance via Learning to Rank
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Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training!
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr!
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Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
Quepid is now an Open Source project!
Quepid is now available as an ASL2 licensed open source project!
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Migration Stories at the London Lucene/Solr Meetup
Brandwatch and LexisNexis tell us about their experiences migrating to Solr, and the usual Q&A and networking
Catching MICES in Berlin for e-commerce search
A review of the Mix Camp E-Commerce Search 2019 held in Berlin, maturity models, offline/online evaluation, ranking & emotion in search
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Search Relevance Organizational Maturity Model (MICES, Berlin)
Smarter search drives value to your business. Delivering search that matches users to the right content is what you care about. Come and hear Eric Pugh's keynote talk at MICES, Berlin
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E-commerce Search for Product Managers (MICES, Berlin)
This full day class helps you understand how working on onsite search for e-commerce requires different thinking than other engineering problems. We teach you to measure search quality, take a hypothesis-driven approach to search projects, and safely 'fail fast' towards ever improving business KPIs.
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It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: An ETL Engine and Data Science Notebook That Connects Programmers to Data Scientists and Business Analysts! (Berlin Buzzwords)
Eric will share what he’s learned in creating a project structure that will feel at home for both Data Scientists and Engineers using Apache Zeppelin and Docker.
Zookeeper Resiliency for Solr Cloud in AWS, using Auto-Scaling Groups
A guest blog from Alex Addison on how LexisNexis UK are building production-ready infrastructure for Solr using AWS autoscaling groups, Terraform and Zookeeper.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search
Search is a deceptively complex field, where competence is hard-won through training, practice, and experience. In that vein dear friends, I've exhumed the venerable "Falsehoods Programmers Believe" party from 4 years ago to bring you one about, no less, Search.
Lets Stop Saying 'Cognitive Search'
We won't address machine learning illiteracy in search if we can't go beyond buzzwords. We need to teach concrete, specific techniques.
Summer of Relevance: Tickets Available!
Join me for four training days in August, going deep into improving your search relevance and learning to rank skills.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Collocations
Using simple statistical methods to find important phrases goes a surprisingly long way to improve search relevance
Solr Json API Tutorial
Moving beyond edismax with the BoolQueryParser and Solr's JSON API
Haystack 2019 day 2 - doubling down on relevance with the Relevance Avengers
A brief review of the second day of Haystack 2019, the search relevance conference
Haystack 2019 day 1 - grab your popcorn, it's Relevance Avengers time
A brief review of the first day of Haystack 2019, the search relevance conference
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Solr & Kubernetes and Lucene's More Like This at the London Lucene/Solr Meetup
Dmitri Lerko on Solr & Kubernetes and Alessandro Benedetti on Lucene's More Like This and the usual Q&A and networking
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Haystack - The Search Relevance Conference.
Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. Haystack is the no-holds-barred conference for organizations where search, matching, and relevance really matters to the bottom line.
Test-driven search relevance tuning - for free!
Quepid, the search testing tool, to become open source software from May 2019 - with a free hosted version!
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Learning to Rank Training at Haystack!
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance via Learning to Rank while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
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Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training at Haystack!
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
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Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training at Haystack!
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
Weather fork-cast: Cloudy with a chance of Elasticsearch
How Amazon forked the open source Elasticsearch project in reaction to Elastic's mixing of open source and commercial code, and what it means for users
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Relevant Search Authors Reunite at San Francisco Elastic Meetup
Two talks from the authors of Relevant Search on improving search relevance using Machine Learning
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New York City Elastic Meetup: Elasticsearch Learning to Rank
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance via Learning to Rank while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
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Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training (New York City)
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
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Learning to Rank Search
How to integrate machine learning into search via Learning to Rank models as part of the Machine Learning track....
Search Insights 2019, a new report from The Search Network
OSC have contributed to a free report on search with a chapter on The Rise of the Relevance Engineer
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Learning to Rank- Search Relevance as a Machine Learning Problem
Search relevance is how questions are answered through search. It's the process of changing the ranking of search results for a user query.
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Keeping Search Relevant in a Digital Workplace
Getting search right and producing real, relevant results for your users isn’t just a technical problem – it requires a collaborative approach from all areas of the business.
Stop Worrying about Solr vs Elasticsearch Decisions
Feature blow-by-blows of heavily configurable open source search engines don't make much sense.
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Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr
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Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
We empower great search teams to achieve their potential
We teach some of the largest organizations how to deliver more accurate, relevant results with Solr and Elasticsearch. If search is core to your value, you should never outsource it.