Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

If you missed the Lucene Revolution conference, especially the training on Apache Solr and Lucene, don’t worry.  You won’t have to wait long for the next round, both Erik Hatcher (co-author of Lucene In Action) and I will be giving trainings at ApacheCon in Atlanta in November. To learn more and sign up, see: Lucene [...]

It’s back to school time and for those with academic interests in machine learning, it’s great to see Apache Mahout is catching on in academic circles, in addition to commercial circles.  The interest is no doubt due to its open code, active community and focus on real world machine learning techniques.  The first class based [...]

I’m pleased to announce a few of us Apache Hadoop users in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill North Carolina) have finally reached critical mass since I sent out an email over a year ago to the Hadoop mailing list asking for interested people.  We’ve found a place to meet and discuss the Hadoop ecosystem, [...]

Thanks to committer Robin Anil for putting together Mahout’s shiny new website: Apache Mahout:: Scalable machine-learning and data-mining library.

ccri – Blog – Latent Semantic Analysis in Solr using Clojure.  I’ve been watching the github site for a while, nice to see some more written up on it.

Join the Lucene Revolution in Boston October 2010 | www.lucenerevolution.org. Hope to see you in Boston!

Really enjoyed my conversation with Michael Coté earlier in the week on NoSQL, Lucene/Solr as a persistence engine and a variety of other topics.  You can hear the conversation at: RedMonk Podcasts.

Ted Dunning and I did an interview with InfoQ on Mahout.  You can read it at: InfoQ: Mahout 0.3: Open Source Machine Learning.

Just announced: Apache Lucene EuroCon – May 18-21 2010. CFP is now live for talks in Prague this May. I’m looking forward to my first visit to Prague and also looking forward to talking with all the great Lucene users over in Europe. Hope to see you there, Grant

Readers might find my first post on integrating Lucene/Solr and Mahout interesting: Lucid Imagination » Integrating Apache Mahout with Apache Lucene and Solr – Part I (of 3).