Search is Eating The World | Recap of Lucene Revolution
The team recently spent time at Lucene/Solr Revolution Much of the crew just got back from Lucene Revolution. It was an incredible experience to hang out with the cream-of-the-crop…
Querying More Fields != More Results – Stop wording and Dismax’s minimum should match argument
Let’s recall from Anatomy of a Dismax Query some key components of the dismax query parser: OK, now we’ve had plenty of time to study John’s post (and hey…
How to Debug Solr With Eclipse
Next Stop Debuggersville! Recently I was puzzled by some behavior Solr was showing me. I scratched my head and called over a colleague. We couldnt quite figure out what…
Beginners guide to enhancing Solr/Lucene search with Mahouts Machine Learning
Learn you some Mahout for great good! Yesterday, John and I gave a talk to the DC Hadoop Users Group about using Mahout with Solr to perform Latent Semantic…
Debugging “Wrong FS expected: file:///” exception from HDFS
I just spent some time putting together some basic Java code to read some data from HDFS. Pretty basic stuff. No map reduce involved. Pretty boilerplate code like the…
How cloud computing is revolutionizing pharma and genomics
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data…
Why FoundationDB Might Be All Its Cracked Up To Be
When I first heard about FoundationDB, I couldnt imagine how it could be anything but vaporware. Seemed like Unicorns crapping happy rainbows to solve all your problems. As Im…
Lucene 4 Finite State Automata in 10 minutes (Intro & Tutorial)
\n \n Sample Automaton\n \n \n\n This article is intended to help you bootstrap your ability to work with Finite State Automata (note automata == plural of automaton). Automata…
Charlottesvilles Big Data Meetup – What is a Data Scientist?
Scott and I ventured out of the office yesterday evening to check out a new group starting up– Charlottesvilles Big Data Group. The most exciting thing about the group…
Code quality is a dial too
This article is a preview of my January 22nd talk at Charlottesvilles Neon Guild where Ill be talking about my experiences with rapid prototyping. If youre local, Id love…
Backing up Virtual Machines in VirtualBox
And now to the fun subject of virtual machine images! My computer blue screened the other day. So I got fairly paranoid. This is the second time in a…
Real-time Doctest Checking In Vim
Vim is a terrific editor. The one thing that kills me though is “the cycle”–the cycle of going from Vim to the console to try out what I just…