Let’s recall from Anatomy of a Dismax Query some key components of the dismax query parser: OK, now we’ve had plenty of time to study John’s post (and hey…
Next Stop Debuggersville! Recently I was puzzled by some behavior Solr was showing me. I scratched my head and called over a colleague. We couldnt quite figure out what…
English is a confusing language. I mean, does it really make sense that you can park in a driveway or drive in a parkway? Also, Ive always been amused…
Learn you some Mahout for great good! Yesterday, John and I gave a talk to the DC Hadoop Users Group about using Mahout with Solr to perform Latent Semantic…
I just spent some time putting together some basic Java code to read some data from HDFS. Pretty basic stuff. No map reduce involved. Pretty boilerplate code like the…
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data…
OSC came to me with an interesting task: To do a quick refresh of SmallBizContracting.com. The first thing that I did was to visit the site so that I…
This past Wednesday and Thursday (March 13th and 14th) OpenSource Connections held an on-site 2-day Solr training course called Solr Unleashed. We covered a broad range of Solr topics…
Last month we found the best time to ask a question on StackOverflow using the oft-missed ‘join’ feature in Solr. Numbers will get you far in isolating the top-performing…
A while ago we created a sample index of US patent grants roughly 700k documents big. Adjacently we pulled down the corresponding multi-page TIFFs of those grants and made…
So heres the problem: Youve finally found a block of time to set down and get your head around Hadoop and MapReduce. You do a quick Google search for…
So I got bored of the old WordCount Hello World, and being a fairly mathy person, I decided to make my own Hello World in which I coaxed Hadoop…
