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Solving The Brooklyn Problem:Better UX through cheap hacks
Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Etsy@kellan
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1. UI/UX can be improved by applying ambient location information
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1. UI/UX can be improved by applying ambient location information2. It’s easy.
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The Brooklyn Problem
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Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn, Alabama
The Brooklyn Problem
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if ($query == ‘Brooklyn’) {return ‘Brooklyn, NY’;}
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Solr 3.10, Maxmind world populations dataset, bash, and an “algorithm”
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<fieldType name="location" class="solr.LatLonType" subFieldSuffix="_coordinate"/>
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<field name="latlong" type="location" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" />
schema.xml:
Solr geo-spatial extension 3.10+
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<?php
$fh = fopen('worldcitiespop.txt', 'r'); $row = fgetcsv($fh); // discard headers for($i=0;$i<100;$i++) { $row = fgetcsv($fh); $json = array('add'=> array('doc' => array( 'terms' => $row[2] . ' ' . $row[0], // city country 'population' => $row[4], 'latlong' => $row[5] . ',' . $row[6], // "latitude,longitude" gets parsed ))); curl_post(json_encode($json)); } } function curl_post($json, $url='http://localhost:8983/solr/update/json') { $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADERS, array('Content-Type: application/json')); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL); }?>
ALL THE CODE!
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“a custom Solr scoring function to re-rank results based on social geo-relevance”
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div(geodist(),sqrt(sum(population,1))
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http://localhost:8393/solr/placesuggest/select?q=b*&sfield=latlong&pt=37.7749295,-122.4194155&sort=div(geodist(),sqrt(sum(population,1)))%20asc
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http://localhost:8393/solr/placesuggest/select?q=b*&sfield=latlong&pt=37.7749295,-122.4194155&sort=div(geodist(),sqrt(sum(population,1)))%20asc
OMG CONTEXT SENSITIVE PERSONALIZED
GEOCODING!!!!!
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Done!
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* Solr 3.10+ working geo-spatial extensions* 2.6 million points == 380Mb index* the data sucks, and it doesn’t matter (much)* a few days of work, 85% increase in data quality.
the tear down
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.Wanjialing, China
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Brooklyn NY, population: 0
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So why aren’t people doing this?
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Solr 3.10, Maxmind world populations dataset, bash, and an “algorithm”
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http://www.etsy.com/listing/59401151/vintage-coffee-bean-bag-chairshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/darn/141009324/http://www.flickr.com/photos/21953562@N07/5539813593/http://www.maxmind.com/app/worldcitieshttp://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/07/20/update-spatial-search-in-apache-lucene-and-solr/http://www.etsy.com/listing/66013923/triceratops-forged-copper-mask
Thank you!
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