We have a site with users that post things (say it's a review of a
book. each review gets a solr doc.)
On the user info page we show a 'top 10' faceting result on the query:
q=username:bwhitman&facet=true&facet.field=review&facet.limit=10
which comes back with
<int name="pynchon">9</int>
<int name="bartheleme">4</int>
..
Which is great as a simple "auto-tagger." But we would love to take
these results and compare it to others to make a "related people"
query. I could take the top 10 terms, perform a query like
q=pynchon^9%20barthelme^4&facet=true&facet.field=username&facet.limit=10
and get the 2nd-order facets back, but I imagine this is a common
task that could be optimized in-solr. Sort of a:
q=username:bwhitman&facet=true&facet.field=review&facet.limit=10&facet.m
lt=true&facet.mlt.field=username
Does anyone else use this sort of functionality? Am I going too far
out of my way?
-Brian
