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…
BM25F in Lucene with BlendedTermQuery
As part of the London hack days Diego Ceccarelli started a BM25F implementation. I began to continue it at Lucene Revolution’s Lucene hackathon. I realized though that when you…
Building Recommendation Systems with Elastic Graph
As I’ve written about extensively, I strongly believe that search engines are the future of recommendation systems. The biggest reason being cost: today’s search engines require extensive amounts of…
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…
Why I think search engines are the future of recommendation systems
Recommendation systems have often felt like costly endeavours that require machine learning expertise and large amounts of infrastructure. Search, on the other hand, increasingly feels like a commodity with…
High-Quality Recommendation Systems with Elasticsearch
Did you know technical books can have spoilers? Well ours does 🙂 and so spoiler alert: we close our book, Relevant Search, making an argument that search engine technology…
Your Recommendation Systems Aren’t As Cool As My Friends
What is more important in a recommendation? That the recommendation is accurate based on my tastes OR That the person making the recommendation is someone I like and respect…
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…
Search for Lunch: this search expert will come speak for free at your company’s lunch and learn
I want to share what I know at your company’s lunch and learn! For free! The problem with lunch and learn’s is that everyone’s busy. It’s challenging to find…
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…