Cassandra Tutorial at StrataConf + Hadoop World NY
Its just been confirmed that Ill be giving a tutorial at StrataConf + Hadoop World this October in New York. My tutorial is: “An Introduction to Real-Time Analytics with…
Its just been confirmed that Ill be giving a tutorial at StrataConf + Hadoop World this October in New York. My tutorial is: “An Introduction to Real-Time Analytics with…
Over the past few weeks Ive been working with Elasticsearch. However, what I really have been missing is a good deployment system. Elasticsearch has a chef provisioning tutorial on…
In our daily adventures on our computers and the Internet, we often find/create notes or documents that we would like to keep for later, that we attempt to organize….
I’m Jonathan Thompson, a rising 4th year CS major at UVA. This is my first blog post as an intern at OSC, I hope you enjoy it! \n\n While…
On a recent engagement, we were posed with the problem of sorting through 6.5 million foreign patent documents and indexing them into Solr. This totaled about 1 TB of…
Last month we found the best time to ask a question on StackOverflow using the oft-missed ‘join’ feature in Solr. Numbers will get you far in isolating the top-performing…
I’ve been working in some Python Solr client code. One area where bugs have cropped up is in query terms that need to be escaped before passing to Solr….
Welcome to the first blog post (of many, hopefully) by OpenSource Connections’ 2012 summer interns. After our first few weeks as interns at OSC, we have begun to get…
In a previous post, we looked at the first two components of the success of search: the density of highlighted search terms and the placement within the search engine…
The United States government procures most of its goods and services through competitive bidding. The notices of its requirements are posted on a centralized website called FedBizOpps, www.fbo.gov. Contracting…
At OpenSource Connections, we focus on solving the search problems that others face. One of the problems that we have noticed is that tools for U.S. government acquisition officers…
When a user enters in a search query and is taken to a search engine results page, then the probability of clicking on a result is a function of…