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…
I’m Samia, and I’m analyzing racial, gender, and ethnic representation in cancer clinical trials.
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…
What’s up with multi-term synonyms in Solr?
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…
Relevant Search, Published!
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Building Gor (Go Replay) on Windows
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…
Recommender Systems 101: Basket Analysis
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…
Interpreting Google Analytics for Site Search
This article provides some guidance on understanding user behavior using what’s provided in Google Analytics. Specifically, it examines the statistics provided under the “search terms” page, found under “Behavior”…
Thoughts on Algolia (vs Solr & Elasticsearch)
After getting cranky on one Algolia blog post, and having a Search Disco episode with Julien Lemoine CTO of Algolia, I’m left fascinated by the solution. Algolia, so…
Building Apache Flume to use Solr 6 as a sink
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.
It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: Query Solr via Spark
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…
Splainer: The Elasticsearch Relevance Sandbox That Tells You Why
Have you looked at a scoring explain out of Elasticsearch? Perhaps you’ve had a tricky relevance problem. You’ve needed to debug Elasticsearch’s scoring. Unfortunately the relevance scoring for Elasticsearch…
Run Installed Elasticsearch from Your Shell
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…