Hello LTR! Learning to Rank Training
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance via Learning to Rank
Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training!
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr!
Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
Search Relevance Organizational Maturity Model (MICES, Berlin)
Smarter search drives value to your business. Delivering search that matches users to the right content is what you care about. Come and hear Eric Pugh's keynote talk at MICES, Berlin
E-commerce Search for Product Managers (MICES, Berlin)
This full day class helps you understand how working on onsite search for e-commerce requires different thinking than other engineering problems. We teach you to measure search quality, take a hypothesis-driven approach to search projects, and safely 'fail fast' towards ever improving business KPIs.
It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: An ETL Engine and Data Science Notebook That Connects Programmers to Data Scientists and Business Analysts! (Berlin Buzzwords)
Eric will share what he’s learned in creating a project structure that will feel at home for both Data Scientists and Engineers using Apache Zeppelin and Docker.
Solr & Kubernetes and Lucene's More Like This at the London Lucene/Solr Meetup
Dmitri Lerko on Solr & Kubernetes and Alessandro Benedetti on Lucene's More Like This and the usual Q&A and networking
Haystack - The Search Relevance Conference.
Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. Haystack is the no-holds-barred conference for organizations where search, matching, and relevance really matters to the bottom line.
Learning to Rank Training at Haystack!
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance via Learning to Rank while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training at Haystack!
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training at Haystack!
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
Relevant Search Authors Reunite at San Francisco Elastic Meetup
Two talks from the authors of Relevant Search on improving search relevance using Machine Learning
New York City Elastic Meetup: Elasticsearch Learning to Rank
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance via Learning to Rank while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training (New York City)
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
Learning to Rank Search
How to integrate machine learning into search via Learning to Rank models as part of the Machine Learning track....
Learning to Rank- Search Relevance as a Machine Learning Problem
Search relevance is how questions are answered through search. It's the process of changing the ranking of search results for a user query.
Keeping Search Relevant in a Digital Workplace
Getting search right and producing real, relevant results for your users isn’t just a technical problem – it requires a collaborative approach from all areas of the business.
Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr
Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
Activate: Search and AI
*The* conference focused on Solr now adds an AI element, we've made the pilgrimage since 2010
Edui Conference - Leveraging Open Data for Deeper Insights
Explore key considerations for leveraging your existing data in conjunction with open third-party content in order to extract valuable insights through methods of analysis and visualization.
Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr
Think Like a Relevance Engineer Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr and Elasticsearch
Berlin Buzzwords - The Neural Search Frontier
Will search relevance be revolutionized by deep learning? Join Doug Turnbull, author of 'Relevant Search', and Tommaso Teofili, author of 'Deep Learning for Search' as we explore the budding field of Neural Search.
Cognitive Computing Summit - Learning To Rank
Learning to Rank (LTR) is now available for both Solr and Elasticsearch. Why is this such a hot topic? What does an organization need to leverage a Learning to Rank solution? Liz explains the LTR pipeline in terms of what is available as an off-the-shelf solution and what isn't. She discusses the challenges faced when implementing LTR and some open research areas moving forward.
Haystack - The Search Relevance Conference.
Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. Haystack is the no-holds-barred conference for organizations where search, matching, and relevance really matters to the bottom line.
Cognitive Solutions day
Want to hear how the next generation of digital solutions are applying AI and Machine Intelligence to create intelligent applications, like Chatbots and Virtual Assistants?
Machinary.ai - Getting started with Learning To Rank
Overview, prerequisites, and implementation details of getting started with Learning To Rank. Why relevancy tuning will be taken over by machine learning, but not yet.
LuceneRevolution 2017
*The* conference focused on Solr, we've made the pilgrimage since 2010
OpenSource Connections is proud to host beSwarm 8
OpenSource Connections is proud to again host beSwarm! beSwarm is a gathering of tech enthusiasts from all over central Virginia to discuss, share, and learn about anything that interests us. The idea of the event is that participants “vote with their feet,” moving around the room and forming swarms around interesting discussions and presentations.
Elastic DC Meetup: Kibana Basics
New to Kibana, and related tools? In April we'll be doing a beginners night for folks interested in Kibana and adjacent topics. We'll have a 25 minute share plus YOUR lightning talks!
DrupalCon: Baltimore
Can Drupal+Solr Yield Google-like results? Come chat with CEO Eric Pugh at DrupalCon!
RVA Data Hackers
Doug will highlight the Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin OSC has developed. Jason Kowalewski will discuss use cases related to personalized job search & recs.
Elastic DC Meetup
Doug will highlight the Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin OSC has developed. Jason Kowalewski will discuss use cases related to personalized job search & recs.
Future of Data Philly Meetup
Doug will be speaking about 'Elasticsearch as a General Purpose Recommendation System' including highlighting Elastic Graph's capabilities to support a real-time recommendation system.
Elastic{On}
Doug will be attending ElasticOn and sharing OSC's new Elasticsearch Learning to Rank Plugin with the conference attendees.
DC Data Wranglers - It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: Query Solr via Spark
Eric will be sharing some experiences making Solr part of a larger data ecosystem through using Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin.
LuceneRevolution
*The* conference focused on Solr, we've made the pilgrimage since 2010
A One/Two punch of speakers on Testing and Relevancy
Doug Turnbull (OpenSource Connections), ‘Test Driven Relevancy' and Rene Kriegler discusses manages relevance with Querqy
beCamp!
If you're a geek in or around the Charlottesville metroplex or even if you're merely tech-curious, this is the event you don't want to miss. beCamp is Charlottesville's version of the BarCamp unconference phenomenon: organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees.
Cassandra Summit
Eric will be giving a short talk on how to break the Cassandra data modeling strait jacket with DSE Search
Search Disco Podcast: Relevant Search and How to Make it
Doug Turnbull and John Berryman talk about building search relevancy
Hortonworks User Group Meeting - Richmond - It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: Query Solr via Spark
Eric will be sharing some experiences making Solr part of a larger data ecosystem through using Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin.
Future of Data: Philadelphia - It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: Query Solr via Spark
Eric will be sharing some experiences making Solr part of a larger data ecosystem through using Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin.
Search Disco Podcast: Algolia so hot right now!
The team chats with CTO of Algolia, Julien Lemione!
NY Solr/Lucene: It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: Query Solr via Spark
Eric will be sharing some experiences making Solr part of a larger data ecosystem through using Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin.
Elastic Fantastics, New York
Doug Turnbull continues his "Relevant Search" book tour by speaking at the New York City Elastic Fantastics!
DevIgnition
Doug will speak at the the annual Washington, DC area developers conference about search relevance!
Elastic Fantastics, Dallas
Doug Turnbull continues his "Relevant Search" book tour by speaking at the Dallas Elastic Fantastics!
Solr 6 Online Chat
Solr 6 is now available! What's included, and what can you do with it? Join us while we record the next SearchDisco podcast on that topic.
Great Wide Open
This talk digs into best practices for implementing search interfaces, what makes a great search experience, and how to avoid many common pitfalls of search design.
Elastic DC Users Group
Doug Turnbull kicks off his "Relevant Search" book tour by keynoting the DC Elastic users group!
Code4Lib 2016
Doug Turnbull and Matt Overstreet teaching "Semantic Search for the Coder Librarian"
Elastic{On}
Our relevancy guru Doug brings his wisdom to the Elasticsearch crowd at Elastic{On}
CVJS
Walk through how a simple search interface can be written in AngularJS, using Elasticsearch as the search engine.
PyTennessee
Doug Turnbull will be speaking at the premier Southeast Python conference, presenting The Ghost in The Search Machine
Open Source Search for Bioinformatics
Eric will be sharing some experiences making Solr part of a larger data ecosystem through using Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin.
Richmond Data Hackers: It’s a Balloon! A Blimp! No, a Dirigible! Apache Zeppelin: Query Solr via Spark
Eric will be sharing some experiences making Solr part of a larger data ecosystem by leveraging Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin.
beCraft Meetup
Doug Turnbull will be presenting The Ghost in The Search Machine (aka Doug Turnbull’s Stupid Search Tricks)
InternetSummit 2015
We will be exhibiting Quepid and talking about the importance of relevant search
Cassandra Day: Dallas
We will be speaking and sharing war stories about building always on always available discovery systems using Cassandra
KMWorld 2015
We will be workshopping *Enabling a Sophisticated Search User Experience* at KMWorld
beCamp 2015
beCamp, that most Charlottesville of conferences brings together tech-curious folks from all walks of life.
LuceneRevolution
*The* conference focused on Solr, we've made the pilgrimage since 2010
Elastic{ON} Tour: Washington DC
We're going to be at Elastic ON sharing how to tune ES for better search results!
AWS re:Invent 2015
Amazon Web Services' premiere conference.
NEST: New England Search Technologies
Doug, author of Relevant Search, will be sharing some advanced techniques
Cassandra Summit
Returning for another year, John, Matt, Eric, and Chris will all be at Cassandra Summit, sharing war stories from our C* projects for the Federal Government and Commercial clients
DevOps RVA: Logging with Logstash, Kafka, and Elasticsearch
Joe is presenting a talk about logging with Logstash, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
Cassandra Day: New York
We will be sharing war stories about building always on always available discovery systems using Cassandra
VLDS Insights 2015
VLDS is the Virginia Longitudinal Data System, providing educational and workforce training data to improve public education. Eric will be looking at how we can help improve educational outcomes.
Cassandra Day: Washington DC
We will be sharing stories about our use of Cassandra with Federal and State Goverments
RVA Data Hackers
Doug will be talking about why ever data hacker should care about the magic inside a search engine and his new book Relevant Search!
Spark Summit 2015
Chris will be speaking at Spark Summit 2015 on "Lessons Learned with Spark at the US Patent & Trademark Office"
London Solr Meetup
Doug will be talking about Test Driven Relevancy, Quepid, and his new book Relevant Search!
Neo4j GraphDays: #AllYouCanGraph Washington DC
Looking forward to powering our What We Do visualization off of a graph database
Cassandra Days: Internet Enterprise Executive Summit
Eric will be sharing some experiences in exploiting data using Cassandra
O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference
Matt will be at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference
Elastic{ON}
Daniel will be at Elastic{ON}15. He builds client-side search applications for Elasticsearch
Strata Conf 2015
Doug will be talking about "Database History from Codd to Brewer and Beyond"
All Things Open
Doug will be talking about How I learned to stop worrying and love the SQL -- converting Quepid from Redis to MySQL
DC Solr/Lucene Meetup
Doug will be talking about 'Hacking Lucene for Custom Search Results'.
New York Solr/Lucene Meetup
Doug will be talking about 'Test Driven Relevancy-How to Work w/Content Experts to Optimize Search Relevancy'.
Cassandra Summit
Matt, Eric, and Chris will all be at Cassandra Summit, sharing war stories from our C* projects for the Federal Government and Commercial clients
DrupalCon
Bringing search relevancy to Austin's Drupalcon.
New York Solr/Lucene Meetup
Eric will be talking about Building a Lightweight Discovery Interface for Chinese Patents
BeCraft
Database History from Codd to Brewer and Beyond
Enterprise Data World
Eric will be talking about building a smart search over Chinese Patents
Lucene/Solr Exchange DC
OSC presents relevance topics in a deep dive single track conference on Lucene and Solr
ApacheCon
Doug will be giving talks on "Hacking Lucene for Custom Search Results" as well as "Test Driven Relevancy -- How to Work with Content Experts to Optimize and Maintain Search Relevancy"
Great Wide Open
Discussing Spyglass - a Javascript search UI library
BigConf
Doug Turnbull and Eric Pugh give two talks on smart search at 2014 BigConf
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