The document discusses Apache Solr, an open-source search platform. It provides an overview of Solr's capabilities including search, faceting, analytics and its use by major Hadoop vendors. It then describes different methods for calculating statistics and facets in Solr, including the JSON Facet API, which provides a powerful and flexible way to generate aggregated results and sub-facets within search responses.
Native Code, Off-Heap Data & JSON Facet API for Solr (Heliosearch)Yonik Seeley
My slides on Heliosearch/Solr, covering native code performance optimizations, off-heap data structures to prevent garbage collection issues, and the new JSON Facet API.
Ingesting and Manipulating Data with JavaScriptLucidworks
Data in the wild isn’t always in the right format we need for search or even mere usability. Lucidworks Fusion offers powerful pipelines, parsers, and stages to wrangle your data into the right format to make it more findable and friendly. However, there are some cases where more obscure data will require the power of scripting.
Your data may need a complex transformation, a custom decryption algorithm, or you may already have existing code for handling a piece of data. Even in these more complex cases, Fusion’s JavaScript capabilities have got you covered.
Native Code, Off-Heap Data & JSON Facet API for Solr (Heliosearch)Yonik Seeley
My slides on Heliosearch/Solr, covering native code performance optimizations, off-heap data structures to prevent garbage collection issues, and the new JSON Facet API.
Ingesting and Manipulating Data with JavaScriptLucidworks
Data in the wild isn’t always in the right format we need for search or even mere usability. Lucidworks Fusion offers powerful pipelines, parsers, and stages to wrangle your data into the right format to make it more findable and friendly. However, there are some cases where more obscure data will require the power of scripting.
Your data may need a complex transformation, a custom decryption algorithm, or you may already have existing code for handling a piece of data. Even in these more complex cases, Fusion’s JavaScript capabilities have got you covered.
Faster Data Analytics with Apache Spark using Apache SolrChitturi Kiran
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for big data processing, with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing. Spark SQL allows users to execute relation queries in Spark with distributed in-memory computations. Though Spark gives us faster in-memory computations, Solr is blazing fast for some analytic queries. In this talk, we will take a deep dive into how to optimize the SQL queries from Spark to Solr by plugging into the Spark LogicalPlanner using pushdown strategies. The key take aways from the talk will be:
How to perform Spark SQL queries with Apache Solr?
What happens inside a Spark SQL query?
How to plug into Spark Logical Planner?
What type of push-down strategies are optimal with Solr?
Examples of push-down strategies
Presented at Lucene Revolution - http://sched.co/BAwV
This session will introduce and demonstrate several techniques for enhancing the search experience by augmenting documents during indexing. First we'll survey the analysis components available in Solr, and then we'll delve into using Solr's update processing pipeline to modify documents on the way in. The session will build on Erik's "Poor Man's Entity Extraction" blog at http://www.searchhub.org/2013/06/27/poor-mans-entity-extraction-with-solr/
Overview of Solr 6.2 examples, including features they have and challenges they present. A contrasting demonstration of a minimal viable example. A step-by-step deconstruction of "films" example to show what part of shipped examples are not actually needed.
Think *inside* the box. Inside the *search* box, that is.
The "best"* search results incorporate many more factors than (just) textual matching and relevancy. Search experience owners manage query context rules, signals automatically feed back machine learned factors, users implicit and explicit behaviors filter and weight future interactions. Synergy emerges with several cooperating (just) searches.
This talk will showcase and detail several (just) search examples including rules, typeahead/suggest, signals, and location awareness, bringing them all together into a cohesive search experience.
Couchbase 5.5: N1QL and Indexing featuresKeshav Murthy
This deck contains the high-level overview of N1QL and Indexing features in Couchbase 5.5. ANSI joins, hash join, index partitioning, grouping, aggregation performance, auditing, query performance features, infrastructure features.
OrientDB vs Neo4j - Comparison of query/speed/functionalityCurtis Mosters
This presentation gives an overview on OrientDB and Neo4j. It also compares some specific querys, their speed and the overall functionality of both databases.
The querys might not be optimized in both cases. At least they have the same outcome and are both written as querys. For sure in Neo4j you should do this in Java code. But that is way harder to write, so this presentation is more like a direkt comparision instead of really getting the best results.
Also it's done with real data and at the end round about 200 GB of data.
A concentrated look at Apache Spark's library Spark SQL including background information and numerous Scala code examples of using Spark SQL with CSV, JSON and databases such as mySQL.
Bring your code to explore the Azure Data Lake: Execute your .NET/Python/R co...Michael Rys
Big data processing increasingly needs to address not just querying big data but needs to apply domain specific algorithms to large amounts of data at scale. This ranges from developing and applying machine learning models to custom, domain specific processing of images, texts, etc. Often the domain experts and programmers have a favorite language that they use to implement their algorithms such as Python, R, C#, etc. Microsoft Azure Data Lake Analytics service is making it easy for customers to bring their domain expertise and their favorite languages to address their big data processing needs. In this session, I will showcase how you can bring your Python, R, and .NET code and apply it at scale using U-SQL.
In this talk, we’ll discuss technical designs of support of HBase as a “native” data source to Spark SQL to achieve both query and load performance and scalability: near-precise execution locality of query and loading, fine-tuned partition pruning, predicate pushdown, plan execution through coprocessor, and optimized and fully parallelized bulk loader. Point and range queries on dimensional attributes will benefit particularly well from the techniques. Preliminary test results vs. established SQL-on-HBase technologies will be provided. The speaker will also share the future plan and real-world use cases, particularly in the telecom industry.
Solr Recipes provides quick and easy steps for common use cases with Apache Solr. Bite-sized recipes will be presented for data ingestion, textual analysis, client integration, and each of Solr’s features including faceting, more-like-this, spell checking/suggest, and others.
Queries need indexes to speed up and optimize resource utilization. What indexes to create and what rules to follow to create right indexes to optimize the workload? This presentation gives the rules for those.
Apache Solr is a powerful search and analytics engine with features such as full-text search, faceting, joins, sorting and capable of handling large amounts of data across a large number of servers. However, with all that power and scalability comes complexity. Solr 6 supports a Parallel SQL feature which provides a simplified, well-known interface to your data in Solr, performs key operations such as sorts and shuffling inside Solr for massive speedups, provides best-practices based query optimization and by leveraging the scalability of SolrCloud and a clever implementation, allows you to throw massive amounts of computation power behind analytical queries.
In this talk, we will explore the why, what and how of Parallel SQL and its building block Streaming Expressions in Solr 6 with a hint of the exciting new developments around this feature.
Faster Data Analytics with Apache Spark using Apache SolrChitturi Kiran
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for big data processing, with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing. Spark SQL allows users to execute relation queries in Spark with distributed in-memory computations. Though Spark gives us faster in-memory computations, Solr is blazing fast for some analytic queries. In this talk, we will take a deep dive into how to optimize the SQL queries from Spark to Solr by plugging into the Spark LogicalPlanner using pushdown strategies. The key take aways from the talk will be:
How to perform Spark SQL queries with Apache Solr?
What happens inside a Spark SQL query?
How to plug into Spark Logical Planner?
What type of push-down strategies are optimal with Solr?
Examples of push-down strategies
Presented at Lucene Revolution - http://sched.co/BAwV
This session will introduce and demonstrate several techniques for enhancing the search experience by augmenting documents during indexing. First we'll survey the analysis components available in Solr, and then we'll delve into using Solr's update processing pipeline to modify documents on the way in. The session will build on Erik's "Poor Man's Entity Extraction" blog at http://www.searchhub.org/2013/06/27/poor-mans-entity-extraction-with-solr/
Overview of Solr 6.2 examples, including features they have and challenges they present. A contrasting demonstration of a minimal viable example. A step-by-step deconstruction of "films" example to show what part of shipped examples are not actually needed.
Think *inside* the box. Inside the *search* box, that is.
The "best"* search results incorporate many more factors than (just) textual matching and relevancy. Search experience owners manage query context rules, signals automatically feed back machine learned factors, users implicit and explicit behaviors filter and weight future interactions. Synergy emerges with several cooperating (just) searches.
This talk will showcase and detail several (just) search examples including rules, typeahead/suggest, signals, and location awareness, bringing them all together into a cohesive search experience.
Couchbase 5.5: N1QL and Indexing featuresKeshav Murthy
This deck contains the high-level overview of N1QL and Indexing features in Couchbase 5.5. ANSI joins, hash join, index partitioning, grouping, aggregation performance, auditing, query performance features, infrastructure features.
OrientDB vs Neo4j - Comparison of query/speed/functionalityCurtis Mosters
This presentation gives an overview on OrientDB and Neo4j. It also compares some specific querys, their speed and the overall functionality of both databases.
The querys might not be optimized in both cases. At least they have the same outcome and are both written as querys. For sure in Neo4j you should do this in Java code. But that is way harder to write, so this presentation is more like a direkt comparision instead of really getting the best results.
Also it's done with real data and at the end round about 200 GB of data.
A concentrated look at Apache Spark's library Spark SQL including background information and numerous Scala code examples of using Spark SQL with CSV, JSON and databases such as mySQL.
Bring your code to explore the Azure Data Lake: Execute your .NET/Python/R co...Michael Rys
Big data processing increasingly needs to address not just querying big data but needs to apply domain specific algorithms to large amounts of data at scale. This ranges from developing and applying machine learning models to custom, domain specific processing of images, texts, etc. Often the domain experts and programmers have a favorite language that they use to implement their algorithms such as Python, R, C#, etc. Microsoft Azure Data Lake Analytics service is making it easy for customers to bring their domain expertise and their favorite languages to address their big data processing needs. In this session, I will showcase how you can bring your Python, R, and .NET code and apply it at scale using U-SQL.
In this talk, we’ll discuss technical designs of support of HBase as a “native” data source to Spark SQL to achieve both query and load performance and scalability: near-precise execution locality of query and loading, fine-tuned partition pruning, predicate pushdown, plan execution through coprocessor, and optimized and fully parallelized bulk loader. Point and range queries on dimensional attributes will benefit particularly well from the techniques. Preliminary test results vs. established SQL-on-HBase technologies will be provided. The speaker will also share the future plan and real-world use cases, particularly in the telecom industry.
Solr Recipes provides quick and easy steps for common use cases with Apache Solr. Bite-sized recipes will be presented for data ingestion, textual analysis, client integration, and each of Solr’s features including faceting, more-like-this, spell checking/suggest, and others.
Queries need indexes to speed up and optimize resource utilization. What indexes to create and what rules to follow to create right indexes to optimize the workload? This presentation gives the rules for those.
Apache Solr is a powerful search and analytics engine with features such as full-text search, faceting, joins, sorting and capable of handling large amounts of data across a large number of servers. However, with all that power and scalability comes complexity. Solr 6 supports a Parallel SQL feature which provides a simplified, well-known interface to your data in Solr, performs key operations such as sorts and shuffling inside Solr for massive speedups, provides best-practices based query optimization and by leveraging the scalability of SolrCloud and a clever implementation, allows you to throw massive amounts of computation power behind analytical queries.
In this talk, we will explore the why, what and how of Parallel SQL and its building block Streaming Expressions in Solr 6 with a hint of the exciting new developments around this feature.
Large Scale ETL for Hadoop and Cloudera Search using Morphlineswhoschek
Cloudera Morphlines is a new, embeddable, open source Java framework that reduces the time and skills necessary to integrate and build Hadoop applications that extract, transform, and load data into Apache Solr, Apache HBase, HDFS, enterprise data warehouses, analytic online dashboards, or other consumers. If you want to integrate, build, or facilitate streaming or batch transformation pipelines without programming and without MapReduce skills, and get the job done with a minimum amount of fuss and support costs, Morphlines is for you.
In this talk, you'll get an overview of Morphlines internals and explore sample use cases that can be widely applied.
Cloudera Search Webinar: Big Data Search, Bigger InsightsCloudera, Inc.
Cloudera Search brings full-text, interactive search and scalable indexing to data in HDFS and Apache HBase. Powered by and adding to Apache Solr, Cloudera Search fully integrates with CDH to bring scale and reliability for next-generation open source search -- Big Data search.
Cloudera Morphlines is a new open source framework, recently added to the CDK, that reduces the time and skills necessary to integrate, build, and change Hadoop processing applications that extract, transform, and load data into Apache Solr, Apache HBase, HDFS, enterprise data warehouses, or analytic online dashboards.
An overview of building and serving Lucene indexes on a Hadoop cluster with Solr for text and parametric searching, as presented at Cleveland Hadoop User Group on 13 January 2014.
ELK Stack - Turn boring logfiles into sexy dashboardGeorg Sorst
Die Präsentation zeigt, wie mit dem ELK-Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Logs von Applikationen zentralisiert verwaltet und ausgewertet werden können.
Closing the Loop in Extended Reality with Kafka Streams and Machine Learning ...confluent
We’ve built a real-time streaming platform that enables prediction based on user behavior, with events occurring in virtual and augmented reality environments. The solution enables organizations to train people in an extended reality environment, where real-life training may be costly and dangerous. Kafka Streams enables analyzing spatial and event data to detect gestural feature and analyze user behavior in real-time to be able to predict any future mistake the user might make. Kafka is the backbone of our real-time analytics and extended reality communication platform with our cluster and applications being deployed on Kubernetes.
In this talk, we will mainly focus on the following: 1. Why Extended Reality with Kafka is a step in the right direction. 2. Architecture & Power of Schema Registry in building a generic platform for pluggable XR apps and analytics models 3. How KSQL and Kafka Streams fits in Kafka Ecosystem to help analyze human motion data and detect features for real-time prediction. 4. Demo of a VR application with real-time analytics feedback, which assists people to be trained in how to work with chemical laboratory equipment.
Tommi Reiman (https://twitter.com/ikitommi) will be presenting Malli
(https://github.com/metosin/malli) is a fresh new data-driven data
validation and specification library for Clojure/Script. In this talk,
Tommi will give a quick introduction to Malli, compare it to prior art
including Plumatic Schema and clojure.spec and demonstrate how to
elegantly solve real-world problems with it. Also, peek beyond the
runtime validation.
Demo presentation given at the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Science (SWAT4LS) 2014 meeting in Berlin, Dec 10, 2014. http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/berlin2014/scientific-programme/
NoSQL - MongoDB. Agility, scalability, performance. I am going to talk about the basis of NoSQL and MongoDB. Why some projects requires RDBMs and another NoSQL databases? What are the pros and cons to use NoSQL vs. SQL? How data are stored and transefed in MongoDB? What query language is used? How MongoDB supports high availability and automatic failover with the help of the replication? What is sharding and how it helps to support scalability?. The newest level of the concurrency - collection-level and document-level.
NYC* 2013 - "Advanced Data Processing: Beyond Queries and Slices"DataStax Academy
The ColumnFamily data model and wide-row support provides the ability to store and access data efficiently in a de-normalized state. Recent enhancements for CQL's spare tables and built-in indexing provide the capability to store data in a manner similar to that of relational databases. For many use cases hybrid approaches are needed, because complete de-normalization is appropriate for some access patterns whereas more structured data is appropriate for others. At times a single logical event becomes multiple insertions across multiple column families. Likewise a user request might require a several reads across different column families. This talk describes some of these scenarios and demonstrates how advanced operations such multiple step procedures, filtering, intersection, and paging can be implemented client side or server side with the help of the IntraVert plugin.
Back to Basics Webinar 5: Introduction to the Aggregation FrameworkMongoDB
This is the fifth webinar of a Back to Basics series that will introduce you to the MongoDB database. This webinar will introduce you to the aggregation framework.
During this session we will cover the best practices for implementing a product catalog with MongoDB. We will cover how to model an item properly when it can have thousands of variations and thousands of properties of interest. You'll learn how to index properly and allow for faceted search with milliseconds response latency and how to implement per-store, per-sku pricing while still keeping a sane number of documents. We will also cover operational considerations, like how to bring the data closer to users to cut down the network latency.
The openCypher Project - An Open Graph Query LanguageNeo4j
We want to present the openCypher project, whose purpose is to make Cypher available to everyone – every data store, every tooling provider, every application developer. openCypher is a continual work in progress. Over the next few months, we will move more and more of the language artifacts over to GitHub to make it available for everyone.
openCypher is an open source project that delivers four key artifacts released under a permissive license: (i) the Cypher reference documentation, (ii) a Technology compatibility kit (TCK), (iii) Reference implementation (a fully functional implementation of key parts of the stack needed to support Cypher inside a data platform or tool) and (iv) the Cypher language specification.
We are also seeking to make the process of specifying and evolving the Cypher query language as open as possible, and are actively seeking comments and suggestions on how to improve the Cypher query language.
The purpose of this talk is to provide more details regarding the above-mentioned aspects.
We want to present the openCypher project, whose purpose is to make Cypher available to everyone – every data store, every tooling provider, every application developer. openCypher is a continual work in progress. Over the next few months, we will move more and more of the language artifacts over to GitHub to make it available for everyone.
openCypher is an open source project that delivers four key artifacts released under a permissive license: (i) the Cypher reference documentation, (ii) a Technology compatibility kit (TCK), (iii) Reference implementation (a fully functional implementation of key parts of the stack needed to support Cypher inside a data platform or tool) and (iv) the Cypher language specification.
We are also seeking to make the process of specifying and evolving the Cypher query language as open as possible, and are actively seeking comments and suggestions on how to improve the Cypher query language.
The purpose of this talk is to provide more details regarding the above-mentioned aspects.
Full-Text Search Explained - Philipp Krenn - Codemotion Rome 2017Codemotion
Today’s applications are expected to provide powerful full-text search. But how does that work in general and how do I implement it on my site or in my application? Actually, this is not as hard as it sounds at first. This talk covers: * How full-text search works in general and what the differences to databases are. * How the score or quality of a search result is calculated. * How to implement this with Elasticsearch. Attendees will learn how to add common search patterns to their applications without breaking a sweat.
A presentation given at the Lucene/Solr Revolution 2014 conference to show Solr and Elasticsearch features side by side. The presentation time was only 30 minutes, so only the core usability features were compared. The full video is embedded on the last slide.
Similar to Parallel SQL and Analytics with Solr: Presented by Yonik Seeley, Cloudera (20)
Search is the Tip of the Spear for Your B2B eCommerce StrategyLucidworks
With ecommerce experiencing explosive growth, it seems intuitive that the B2B segment of that ecosystem is mirroring the same trajectory. That said, B2B has very different needs when it comes to transacting with the same style of experiences that we see in B2C. For instance, B2B ecommerce is about precision findability, whereas B2C customers can convert at higher rates when they’re just browsing online. In order for the B2B buying experience to be successful, search needs to be tuned to meet the unique needs of the segment.
In this webinar with Forrester senior analyst Joe Cicman, you’ll learn:
-Which verticals in B2B will drive the most growth, and how machine-learning powered personalization tactics can be deployed to support those specific verticals
-Why an omnichannel selling approach must be deployed in order to see success in B2B
-How deploying content search capabilities will support a longer sales cycle at scale
-What the next steps are to support a robust B2B commerce strategy supported by new technology
Speakers
Joe Cicman, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Jenny Gomez, VP of Marketing, Lucidworks
Customer loyalty starts with quickly responding to your customer’s needs. When it comes to resolving open support cases, time is of the essence. Time spent searching for answers adds up and creates inefficiencies in resolving cases at scale. Relevant answers need to be a few clicks away and easily accessible for agents directly from their service console.
We will explore how Lucidworks’ Agent Insights application automatically connects agents with the correct answers and resources. You’ll learn how to:
-Configure a proactive widget in an agent’s case view page to access resources across third-party systems (such as Sharepoint, Confluence, JIRA, Zendesk, and ServiceNow).
-Easily set up query pipelines to autonomously route assets and resources that are relevant to the case-at-hand—directly to the right agent.
-Identify subject matter experts within your support data and access tribal knowledge with lightning-fast speed.
How Crate & Barrel Connects Shoppers with Relevant ProductsLucidworks
Lunch and Learn during Retail TouchPoints #RIC21 virtual event.
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Crate & Barrel’s previous search solution couldn’t provide its shoppers with an online search and browse experience consistent with the customer-centric Crate & Barrel brand. Meanwhile, Crate & Barrel merchandisers spent the bulk of their time manually creating and maintaining search rules. The search experience impacted customer retention, loyalty, and revenue growth.
Join this lunch & learn for an interactive chat on how Crate & Barrel partnered with Lucidworks to:
-Improve search and browse by modernizing the technology stack with ML-based personalization and merchandising solutions
-Enhance the experience for both shoppers and merchandisers
-Explore signals to transform the omnichannel shopping experience
Questions? Visit https://lucidworks.com/contact/
Learn how to guide customers to relevant products using eCommerce search, hyper-personalisation, and recommendations in our ‘Best-In-Class Retail Product Discovery’ webinar.
Nowadays, shoppers want their online experience to be engaging, inspirational and fulfilling. They want to find what they’re looking for quickly and easily. If the sought after item isn’t available, they want the next best product or content surfaced to them. They want a website to understand their goals as though they were talking to a sales assistant in person, in-store.
In this webinar, we explore IMRG industry data insights and a best-in-class example of retail product discovery. You’ll learn:
- How AI can drive increased revenue through hyper-personalised experiences
- How user intent can be easily understood and results displayed immediately
- How merchandisers can be empowered to curate results and product placement – all without having to rely on IT.
Presented by:
Dave Hawkins, Principal Sales Engineer - Lucidworks
Matthew Walsh, Director of Data & Retail - IMRG
Connected Experiences Are Personalized ExperiencesLucidworks
Many companies claim personalization and omnichannel capabilities are top priorities. Few are able to deliver on those experiences.
For a recent Lucidworks-commissioned study, Forrester Consulting surveyed 350+ global business decision-makers to see what gets in the way of achieving these goals. They discovered that inefficient technology, lack of behavioral insights, and failure to tie initiatives to enterprise-wide goals are some of the most frequent blockers to personalization success.
Join guest speaker, Forrester VP and Principal Analyst, Brendan Witcher, and Lucidworks CEO, Will Hayes, to hear the results of the Forrester Consulting study, how to avoid “digital blindness,” and how to apply VoC data in real-time to delight customers with personalized experiences connected across every touchpoint.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- Why companies who utilize real-time customer signals report more effective personalization
- How to connect employees and customers in a shared experience through search and browse
- How Lucidworks clients Lenovo, Morgan Stanley and Red Hat fast-tracked improvements in conversion, engagement and customer satisfaction
Featuring
- Will Hayes, CEO, Lucidworks
- Brendan Witcher, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Intelligent Insight Driven Policing with MC+A, Toronto Police Service and Luc...Lucidworks
Intelligent Policing. Leveraging Data to more effectively Serve Communities.
Policing in the next decade is anticipated to be very different from historical methods. More data driven, more focused on the intricacies of communities they serve and more open and collaborative to make informed recommendations a reality. Whether its social populations, NIBRS or organization improvement that’s the driver, the IT requirement is largely the same. Provide 360 access to large volumes of siloed data to gain a full 360 understanding of existing connections and patterns for improved insight and recommendation.
Join us for a round table discussion of how the Toronto Police Service is better serving their community through deploying a unified intelligent data platform.
Data innovation improves officers' engagement with existing data and streamlines investigation workflows by enhancing collaboration. This improved visibility into existing police data allows for a more intelligent and responsive police force.
In this webinar, we'll cover:
-The technology needs of an intelligent police force.
-How a Global Search improves an officer's interaction with existing data.
Featuring:
-Simon Taylor, VP, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Lucidworks
-Michael Cizmar, Managing Director, MC+A
-Ian Williams, Manager of Analytics & Innovation, Toronto Police Service
[Webinar] Intelligent Policing. Leveraging Data to more effectively Serve Com...Lucidworks
Policing in the next decade is anticipated to be very different from historical methods. More data driven, more focused on the intricacies of communities they serve and more open and collaborative to make informed recommendations a reality. Whether its social populations, NIBRS or organization improvement that’s the driver, the IT requirement is largely the same. Provide 360 access to large volumes of siloed data to gain a full 360 understanding of existing connections and patterns for improved insight and recommendation.
Join us for a round table discussion of how the Toronto Police Service is better serving their community through deploying a unified intelligent data platform.
Data innovation improves officers' engagement with existing data and streamlines investigation workflows by enhancing collaboration. This improved visibility into existing police data allows for a more intelligent and responsive police force.
In this webinar, we'll cover:
The technology needs of an intelligent police force.
How a Global Search improves an officer's interaction with existing data.
Featuring
-Simon Taylor, VP, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Lucidworks
-Michael Cizmar, Managing Director, MC+A
-Ian Williams, Manager of Analytics & Innovation, Toronto Police Service
Accelerate The Path To Purchase With Product Discovery at Retail Innovation C...Lucidworks
Wish your conversion rates were higher? Can’t figure out how to efficiently and effectively serve all the visitors on your site? Embarrassed by the quality of your product discovery experience? The bar is high and the influx of online shopping over recent months has reminded us that the opportunities are real. We’re all deep in holiday prep, but let’s take a few minutes to think about January 2021 and beyond. How can we position ourselves for success with our customers and against our competition?
Grab your lunch and let’s dive into three strategies that need to be part of your 2021 roadmap. You don’t need an army to get there. But you do need to take action and capitalize on the shoppers abandoning the product discovery journey on your site.
In this session, attendees will find out how to:
-Take control of merchandising at scale;
-Implement hands-free search relevancy; and
-Address personalization challenges.
AI-Powered Linguistics and Search with Fusion and RosetteLucidworks
For a personalized search experience, search curation requires robust text interpretation, data enrichment, relevancy tuning and recommendations. In order to achieve this, language and entity identification are crucial.
For teams working on search applications, advanced language packages allow them to achieve greater recall without sacrificing precision.
Join us for a guided tour of our new Advanced Linguistics packages, available in Fusion, thanks to the technology partnership between Lucidworks and Basistech.
We’ll explore the application of language identification and entity extraction in the context of search, along with practical examples of personalizing search and enhancing entity extraction.
In this webinar, we’ll cover:
-How Fusion uses the Rosette Basic Linguistics and Entity Extraction packages
-Tips for improving language identification and treatment as well as data enrichment for personalization
-Speech2 demo modeling Active Recommendation
-Use Rosette’s packages with Fusion Pipelines to build custom entities for specific domain use cases
Featuring:
-Radu Miclaus, Director of Product, AI and Cloud, Lucidworks, Lucidworks
-Robert Lucarini, Senior Software Engineer, Lucidworks
-Nick Belanger, Solutions Engineer, Basis Technology
The Service Industry After COVID-19: The Soul of Service in a Virtual MomentLucidworks
Before COVID-19, almost 80% of the US workforce worked service in jobs that involve in-person interaction with strangers. Now, leaders of service organizations must reshape their offerings during the pandemic and prepare for whatever the new normal turns out to be. Our three panelists will share ideas for adapting their service businesses, now that closer-than-six-feet isn’t an option.
Join Lucidworks as we talk shop with 3 service business leaders, covering:
-Common impacts of the pandemic on service businesses (and what to do about them),
-How service teams can maintain a human touch across virtual channels, and
-Plans for the future, before and after the pandemic subsides.
Featuring
-Sara Nathan, President & CEO, AMIGOS
-Anthony Carruesco, Founder, AC Fly Fishing
-sara bradley, chef and proprietor, freight house
-Justin Sears, VP Product Marketing, Lucidworks
Webinar: Smart answers for employee and customer support after covid 19 - EuropeLucidworks
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to support far more customers and employees through digital channels than ever before. Many are turning to chatbots to help meet increasing demand, but traditional rules-based approaches can’t keep up. Our new Smart Answers add-on to Lucidworks Fusion makes existing chatbots and virtual assistants more intelligent and more valuable to the people you serve.
Smart Answers for Employee and Customer Support After COVID-19Lucidworks
Watch our on-demand webinar showcasing Smart Answers on Lucidworks Fusion. This technology makes existing chatbots and virtual assistants more intelligent and more valuable to the people you serve.
In this webinar, we’ll cover off:
-How search and deep learning extend conversational frameworks for improved experiences
-How Smart Answers improves customer care, call deflection, and employee self-service
-A live demo of Smart Answers for multi-channel self-service support
Applying AI & Search in Europe - featuring 451 ResearchLucidworks
In the current climate, it’s now more important than ever to digitally enable your workforce and customers.
Hear from Simon Taylor, VP Global Partners & Alliances, Lucidworks and Matt Aslett, Research Vice President, 451 Research to get the inside scoop on how industry leaders in Europe are developing and executing their digital transformation strategies.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss:
The top challenges and aspirations European business and technology leaders are solving using AI and search technology
Which search and AI use cases are making the biggest impact in industries such as finance, healthcare, retail and energy in Europe
What technology buyers should look for when evaluating AI and search solutions
Webinar: 5 Must-Have Items You Need for Your 2020 Ecommerce StrategyLucidworks
In this webinar with 451 Research, you'll understand how retailers are using AI to predict customer intent and learn which key performance metrics are used by more than 120 online retailers in Lucidworks’ 2019 Retail Benchmark Survey.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
● What trends and opportunities are facing the ecommerce industry in 2020
● Why search is the universal path to understanding customer intent
● How large online retailers apply AI to maximize the effectiveness of their personalization efforts
Where Search Meets Science and Style Meets Savings: Nordstrom Rack's Journey ...Lucidworks
Nordstrom Rack | Hautelook curates and serves customers a wide selection of on-trend apparel, accessories, and shoes at an everyday savings of up to 75 percent off regular prices. With over a million visitors shopping across different platforms every day, and a realization that customers have become accustomed to robust and personalized search interactions, Nordstrom Rack | Hautelook launched an initiative over a year ago to provide data science-driven digital experiences to their customers.
In this session, we’ll discuss Nordstrom Rack | Hautelook’s journey of operationalizing a hefty strategy, optimizing a fickle infrastructure, and rallying troops around a single vision of building an expansible machine-learning driven product discovery engine.
The audience will learn about:
-The key technical challenges and outcomes that come with onboarding a solution
-The lessons learned of creating and executing operational design
-The use of Lucidworks Fusion to plug custom data science models into search and browse applications to understand user intent and deliver personalized experiences
Apply Knowledge Graphs and Search for Real-World Decision IntelligenceLucidworks
Knowledge graphs and machine learning are on the rise as enterprises hunt for more effective ways to connect the dots between the data and the business world. With newer technologies, the digital workplace can dramatically improve employee engagement, data-driven decisions, and actions that serve tangible business objectives.
In this webinar, you will learn
-- Introduction to knowledge graphs and where they fit in the ML landscape
-- How breakthroughs in search affect your business
-- The key features to consider when choosing a data discovery platform
-- Best practices for adopting AI-powered search, with real-world examples
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.