Replacing an enterprise search product? Use this three-step process to create actionable requirements for your team. The inherent challenge in replacing existing enterprise products is that their functionality and…
It’s no secret that machine learning is revolutionizing many industries. This is equally true in search, where companies exhaust themselves capturing nuance through manually tuned search relevance. Mature search…
You have probably heard us talk about Solr multiterm synonyms a lot! It’s a big problem that prevents a lot of organizations from getting reasonable search relevance out of…
I’ve been learning a bit of R this summer. R is a pretty powerful language and environment used for statistical computing. I chose it because it’s open-source (and therefore…
As I mentioned the other week, I’m analyzing participation rates of gender, ethnic, and racial minorities in cancer clinical trials concluded between 2002-2012. I’m working with 3 datasets from…
My name is Samia, and I am being jointly hosted by OSC and Sartography, LLC as a DataStart intern for the next couple of months. You can read more…
Gor, or Go Replay, is a great tool to replicate traffic from a production system to a test environment. The tool itself comes prebuilt for OSX and Linux however…
Something has been cooking We recently worked on moving Quepid from a Python backend to a Ruby backend, something Joel Spolsky would frown upon: “They did it by making…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 9, 2015 – OpenSource Connections, a search and discovery consulting firm specializing in user engagement and relevancy, has launched Quepid, its search relevance testing and monitoring…
Do you have location data in your Solr index? Are you making use of it? A typical thing that comes to mindwhen thinking about search results is a list…
##Putting the data togetherRecently we’ve had to analyze the size of files being ingested into a Solr index. Performance testing had been done several times and we were seeing…
Vagrant is great… most of the time Vagrant is a powerful tool for setting up development environments quickly. But just like any other tool, there are use cases where…
