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…
Adventures in Puppetry!
My first attempt at using Puppet to automate a server build was not as easy as Id hoped. The goal seemed simple enough: Build a RedHat server running Solr…
Thinking about Solr 4 Book Update
Im just starting to think about updating the book Solr Enterprise Search Server that David Smiley and I co-authored for Solr 4 now that it is very close to…
CodeFloat 2012 “by the numbers”
For the past year Ive been talking with Christopher Ball and Erik Hatcher about how frustrating it is to have to carve time out of our regular day jobs…
LuceneRevolution 2012 Recap
I went to LuceneRevolution to test out my assertion that Search is the dominant metaphor for working with Big Data and based on the conversations that I had, that…
An Introduction to Results Utility Positioning
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…
Talking Solr in Las Vegas, February 22, 2012 7:00 PM
Do you like Solr? Live in Las Vegas? Are you going to be in Vegas on Wednesday, February 22, 2012? Like free dinner? If this sounds like you, then…
Patent Troll Shows Need To Improve Search To Disprove
As the “father of the Internet,” Tim Berners-Lee, got onto a plane to head to the burgeoning tech center of Tyler, Texas (all sarcasm intended), he must have wondered…
Why use a Javascript interface for Solr?
Richer presentation. Deeper data in search results. Search UIs are getting richer and more interesting by the day. Google page snapshots, animated disclosures of richer data on mouse over,…
Indexing Chinese in Solr
Recently, we had a project where we helped a client index a corpus of Chinese language documents in Solr. We have asked Dan Funk, a committer to Project Blacklight…
You Dont Know Zipf About Your Landing Pages
Unless you have a very well-known brand where people type your URL to visit your site, then chances are that most of your traffic comes from an external search…
Search Engine Testing and Apache Lucene Eurocon Oh My!
Eric Pugh got notified today that hes been accepted to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at the 2011 Apache Lucene Eurocon. So, what, you may ask, does search…