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Solr/Lucene Meetup July 2015

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Solr/Lucene Meetup July 2015

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Hello everyone,

We are organizing a meetup on Saturday, 25th July, 2015 at 9:30 am. The venue is Target's Office at Manyata Embassy Business Park .

Here's the agenda:

Talk 1:

Crux of eCommerce Search and Relevancy (40 mins) - Target

Ecommerce is different; factors that are critical are responsiveness, real time search capabilities with heavy faceting and sorting needs. Search relevancy is also key driver for ecommerce conversion. It is important to measure the relevancy of the engine offline to tune it for better results. NDCG is used as the base relevance metrics to evaluate the search algorithms and improvements. We will discuss an agile methodology and tool (XGILE) to perform the relevancy measurement using NDCG. The talk will also provide an overview of Naïve Bayes classifier its impact on search relevance. Also we discuss on how we leverage clicks data and business specific attributes such as profit margin to come up with a technique to rank items in both static and dynamic ways for adjusting relevance and hence increasing the search conversion.

Talk 2:

Creating Search Analytic Dashboards (20 mins) - Varun Thacker, Lucidworks Inc.

Visualize query throughput, top searched queries, zero results queries and various other metrics on a dashboard.The talk will demonstrate how to take your Solr logs files, use logstash and banana to quickly make your search dashboard.

Talk 3:

Consuming Real Time Signals in Solr (40 mins) - Umesh Prasad, Flipkart

This talk will focus on how Flipkart used Solr along with other data stores to index it's rapidly changing inventory and other merchant data.

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