Erik Hatcher wrote:
On Dec 8, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote:
My data is 492,000 records of book data. I am faceting on 4 fields:
author, subject, language, format.
Format and language are fairly simple as their are only a few unique
terms. Author and subject however are much different in that there
are thousands of unique terms.
When encountering difficult issues, I like to think in terms of the
user interface. Surely you're not presenting 400k+ authors to the
users in one shot. In Collex, we have put an AJAX drop-down that
shows the author facet (we call it name on the UI, with various roles
like author, painter, etc). You can see this in action here:
In our data, we don't have unique authors for each records ... so let's
say out of the 500,000 records ... we have 200,000 authors. What I am
trying to display is the top 10 authors from the results of a search.
So I do a search for title:"Gone with the wind" and I would like to see
the top 10 matching authors from these results.
But no worries, I have written my own facet handler and I am now back to
under a second with faceting!
Thanks for everyone's help and keep up the good work!
Andrew
