Heatmaps in Elasticsearch
Heatmap facets are a powerful demonstration of Solr’s geospatial capabilities. Given a corpus of indexed shapes, a heatmap facet will show you where the results of your query fit…
Trey Grainger Chats about Solr and Lucene Revolution Part. 2
Trey is SVP of Engineering at Lucidworks and the co-author of Solr in Action. He sat down with Doug Turnbull and Matt Overstreet in December of last year to…
Trey Grainger Chats about Solr and Lucene Revolution Part. 1
Trey is SVP of Engineering at Lucidworks and the co-author of Solr in Action. He sat down with Doug Turnbull and Matt Overstreet in December of last year to…
OpenBadges: Currently dragging me through the trough of disillusionment
For years I’ve been interested in describing what makes someone special by looking at the ambient data that surrounds them. My first big effort was way back in 2008…
Traditional Retail: Stop Whining, Start Reverse Showrooming
We’re all familiar with showrooming. It’s the phenomenon where shoppers go to the store, see something they like, then check amazon to see if the item is available. Traditional,…
First Impressions of Apache NiFi
My colleague Scott had been bugging me about NiFi for almost a year, and last week I had the privilege of attending an all day training session on Apache…
Expanding data from a frequency table into case form in R and STATA
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…
Content expert’s guide to diagnosing site search relevance problems
Most people find site search maddening to manage. How are your users searching? Is search helping or hurting the bottom line? It’s one thing to try a few pet…
Learning the shape of my data. Working with the AACT data.
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…
Relevant Search Book With Doug Turnbull and John Berryman
A conversation with Doug Turnbull and John Berryman, authors of Relevant Search from Manning Publications about: The future for search What it’s like to write a techinical book, an…
Deploying AACT Oracle Dump File into the Cloud with Docker
My summer project is supporting our Data Science intern Samia in her quest to understand if the racial, gender and ethnic representation in cancer clinical trials reflects the general…
Top 7 Mistakes Organizations Make With Search
This article reflects on lessons learned from our book Relevant Search. Readers of this article can use discount code oscrelsearch to get 39% off your purchase! Buy Now After…