Re: [ANN] New Features For Splainer

[Doug Turnbull]

Glad you find it useful Daniel!

Yeah its all driven from the browser. Splainer doesn't have a backend, its
just a bunch of html and javascript hosted on s3. So no worries about your
data being shared around.

It seems another common trend is just running it locally. I correspond with
quite a few folks that just do that. If you know something about some basic
Javascript build tools it typically just works fine that way as well.

Let me know if you have any ideas/problems!

Cheers,
-Doug

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C] <
daniel.da...@nih.gov> wrote:

> I usually protect https://whatever.nlm.nih.gov/solr deeply, requiring CAS
> authentication against NIH Login, but I also make sure handleSelect=false,
> and reverse proxy https://whatever.nlm.nih.gov/search/core-name to
> /solr/select.
>
> I'm surprised and gratified that http://splainer.io/ works in my
> environment.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Doug Turnbull [mailto:dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 3:47 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: [ANN] New Features For Splainer
>
> First, I wanted to humbly thank the Solr community for their contributions
> and feedback for our open source Solr sandbox, Splainer (
> http://splainer.io and http://github.com/o19s/splainer). The reception
> and comments have been generally positive and helpful, and I very much
> appreciate being part of such a great open source community that wants to
> support each other.
>
> What is Splainer exactly? Why should you care? Nobody likes working with
> Solr in the browser's URL bar.  Splainer let's you paste in your Solr URL
> and get an instant, easy to understand breakdown of why some documents are
> ranked higher than others. It then gives you a friendly interface to tweak
> Solr params and experiment with different ideas with a friendlier UI than
> trying to parse through XML and JSON. You needn't worry about security
> rules so that some splainer backend needing to talk to your Solr. The
> interaction with Solr is 100% through your browser. If your PC can see
> Solr, then so can Splainer running in your browser. If you leave work or
> turn off the VPN, then Splainer can't see your Solr. It's all running
> locally on your machine through the browser!
>
> I wanted to share that we've been slowly adding features to Splainer. The
> two I wanted to highlight, are captured in this blog article (
> http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/07/24/splainer-a-solr-developers-best-friend/
> )
>
> To summarize, they include
>
> - Explain Other
> You often wonder why obviously relevant search results don't come back.
> Splainer now gives you the ability to compare any document to secondary
> document to see what factors caused one document to rank higher than another
>
> - Share Splainerized Solr Results
> Once you paste a Solr URL into Splainer, you can then copy the splainer.io
> URL to share what you're seeing with a colleague. For example, here's some
> information about Virginia state laws about hunting deer from a boat:
>
>
> http://splainer.io/#?solr=http:%2F%2Fsolr.quepid.com%2Fsolr%2Fstatedecoded%2Fselect%3Fq%3Ddeer%20hunt%20from%20watercraft%0A%26defType%3Dedismax%0A%26qf%3Dcatch_line%20text%0A%26bq%3Dtitle:deer
>
> There's many more smaller features and tweaks, but I wanted to let you
> know this was out there. I hope you find Splainer useful. I'm very happy to
> field pull requests, ideas, suggestions, or try to figure out why Splainer
> isn't working for you!
>
> Cheers!
> --
> *Doug Turnbull **| *Search Relevance Consultant | OpenSource Connections <
> http://opensourceconnections.com>, LLC | 240.476.9983
> Author: Relevant Search <http://manning.com/turnbull> This e-mail and all
> contents, including attachments, is considered to be Company Confidential
> unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of whether attachments are
> marked as such.
>



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RE: [ANN] New Features For Splainer

[Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C]]

I usually protect https://whatever.nlm.nih.gov/solr deeply, requiring CAS 
authentication against NIH Login, but I also make sure handleSelect=false, and 
reverse proxy https://whatever.nlm.nih.gov/search/core-name to /solr/select.

I'm surprised and gratified that http://splainer.io/ works in my environment. 

-Original Message-
From: Doug Turnbull [mailto:dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 3:47 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: [ANN] New Features For Splainer

First, I wanted to humbly thank the Solr community for their contributions and 
feedback for our open source Solr sandbox, Splainer (http://splainer.io and 
http://github.com/o19s/splainer). The reception and comments have been 
generally positive and helpful, and I very much appreciate being part of such a 
great open source community that wants to support each other.

What is Splainer exactly? Why should you care? Nobody likes working with Solr 
in the browser's URL bar.  Splainer let's you paste in your Solr URL and get an 
instant, easy to understand breakdown of why some documents are ranked higher 
than others. It then gives you a friendly interface to tweak Solr params and 
experiment with different ideas with a friendlier UI than trying to parse 
through XML and JSON. You needn't worry about security rules so that some 
splainer backend needing to talk to your Solr. The interaction with Solr is 
100% through your browser. If your PC can see Solr, then so can Splainer 
running in your browser. If you leave work or turn off the VPN, then Splainer 
can't see your Solr. It's all running locally on your machine through the 
browser!

I wanted to share that we've been slowly adding features to Splainer. The two I 
wanted to highlight, are captured in this blog article ( 
http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/07/24/splainer-a-solr-developers-best-friend/
)

To summarize, they include

- Explain Other
You often wonder why obviously relevant search results don't come back.
Splainer now gives you the ability to compare any document to secondary 
document to see what factors caused one document to rank higher than another

- Share Splainerized Solr Results
Once you paste a Solr URL into Splainer, you can then copy the splainer.io URL 
to share what you're seeing with a colleague. For example, here's some 
information about Virginia state laws about hunting deer from a boat:

http://splainer.io/#?solr=http:%2F%2Fsolr.quepid.com%2Fsolr%2Fstatedecoded%2Fselect%3Fq%3Ddeer%20hunt%20from%20watercraft%0A%26defType%3Dedismax%0A%26qf%3Dcatch_line%20text%0A%26bq%3Dtitle:deer

There's many more smaller features and tweaks, but I wanted to let you know 
this was out there. I hope you find Splainer useful. I'm very happy to field 
pull requests, ideas, suggestions, or try to figure out why Splainer isn't 
working for you!

Cheers!
--
*Doug Turnbull **| *Search Relevance Consultant | OpenSource Connections 
<http://opensourceconnections.com>, LLC | 240.476.9983
Author: Relevant Search <http://manning.com/turnbull> This e-mail and all 
contents, including attachments, is considered to be Company Confidential 
unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of whether attachments are 
marked as such.

[ANN] New Features For Splainer

[Doug Turnbull]

First, I wanted to humbly thank the Solr community for their contributions
and feedback for our open source Solr sandbox, Splainer (http://splainer.io
and http://github.com/o19s/splainer). The reception and comments have been
generally positive and helpful, and I very much appreciate being part of
such a great open source community that wants to support each other.

What is Splainer exactly? Why should you care? Nobody likes working with
Solr in the browser's URL bar.  Splainer let's you paste in your Solr URL
and get an instant, easy to understand breakdown of why some documents are
ranked higher than others. It then gives you a friendly interface to tweak
Solr params and experiment with different ideas with a friendlier UI than
trying to parse through XML and JSON. You needn't worry about security
rules so that some splainer backend needing to talk to your Solr. The
interaction with Solr is 100% through your browser. If your PC can see
Solr, then so can Splainer running in your browser. If you leave work or
turn off the VPN, then Splainer can't see your Solr. It's all running
locally on your machine through the browser!

I wanted to share that we've been slowly adding features to Splainer. The
two I wanted to highlight, are captured in this blog article (
http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/07/24/splainer-a-solr-developers-best-friend/
)

To summarize, they include

- Explain Other
You often wonder why obviously relevant search results don't come back.
Splainer now gives you the ability to compare any document to secondary
document to see what factors caused one document to rank higher than another

- Share Splainerized Solr Results
Once you paste a Solr URL into Splainer, you can then copy the splainer.io
URL to share what you're seeing with a colleague. For example, here's some
information about Virginia state laws about hunting deer from a boat:

http://splainer.io/#?solr=http:%2F%2Fsolr.quepid.com%2Fsolr%2Fstatedecoded%2Fselect%3Fq%3Ddeer%20hunt%20from%20watercraft%0A%26defType%3Dedismax%0A%26qf%3Dcatch_line%20text%0A%26bq%3Dtitle:deer

There's many more smaller features and tweaks, but I wanted to let you know
this was out there. I hope you find Splainer useful. I'm very happy to
field pull requests, ideas, suggestions, or try to figure out why Splainer
isn't working for you!

Cheers!
-- 
*Doug Turnbull **| *Search Relevance Consultant | OpenSource Connections
, LLC | 240.476.9983
Author: Relevant Search 
This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be
Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless
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