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…
The Conferences We Went to in 2016
Every year sometime during the months of February or March we sneak out of town for our Annual Retreat, an event that gives us a chance to reflect on…
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…
Interview with Martin White
This week on the podcast Doug Turnbull and Matt Overstreet sit down and chat with Martin White. Martin is the author of the book “Enterprise Search” published by O’Reilly…
Search as a Recommendor System
Doug and Matt take a look at a few good things recently added to Solr and Elasticsearch. Also, Doug goes into more detail on using search engines as recommendor…
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…
How to Practice Search Relevancy
How to build a search practice with Doug Turnbull, Matt Overstreet and Scott Stultz. Doug released a companion to relevant search about how to actually practice good search http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/07/07/relevance-investments-ebook/….
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…