How well does search support your business? Are your investments in smarter, more relevant search, paying off? These are business-level questions, not technical ones! After writing Relevant Search we…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There were some questions floating around the Solr mailing lists about multi-term synonyms and a few notable answers are as follows. The short version is, it’s complicated and every…
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…
You’ve probably seen “buyers also bought” recommendations. To drive more sales, you highlight items that are frequently purchased together. For example, the screenshot below shows “frequently bought together” for…
Julien Lemoine from Alogia search joins us to talk about how they have implemented text search from scratch.In our chat we get some history of Algolia and some great…
Using the latest Solr with Apache Flume can be difficult because the MorphlineSolrSink in the 1.6 release is stuck supporting Solr 4. However, Cloudera contributed solr-morphlines-core and solr-morphlines-cell to the Solr project and with a few tricks Flume can be updated to the latest and greatest Solr.
This blog post contains the code from the talk I gave at the NYC Solr/Lucene Meetup entitled It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, it’s a Dirigible. Apache Zeppelin: Query…
Got Elasticsearch installed on an Ubuntu/Debian box? Want to run it directly from the command line? It’s handy to recreate how Elasticsearch actually runs on your box. You might…
