The Splainer!
The sandbox that explains your search results for you so you don't have to go digging through explain debug! Paste in your Solr URL and go. Try it out here.
Why?
You're a search developer trying to tune search results with Solr. You're engaged in search relevancy work.
You're probably stuck with the question of why? Why do search results come back in the order that they do? Solr/Lucene exposes an explain syntax for you to try to explain search scoring. Unfortunately outside the simplest tasks, its a nightmare to read through. There are parsers like explain.solr.pl but they require a lot of manual copy/pasting of explain information to the tool.
Splainer is different by being a sandbox. Paste in your Solr URL, query parameters and all. As you work with your query, changing parameters, Splainer shows you parsed and summarized explain information alongside your documents. Continue working and see how the search results change.
Read the blog post introducing Splainer here
Splainer forms the core of our product Quepid that allows you to do this over multiple queries against expert-graded search results to track search changes over a longer period of time.
Using Splainer
Take the tour to see how you'd use Splainer.
If you want to work locally, we have a Docker image
docker run -d -p 9000:9000 o19s/splainer and then go to http://localhost:9000
Running the code
Npm/Bower Dev Environment
Splainer is written using AngularJS project. It requires npm, grunt, and bower.
Be sure you've installed npm, bower, and grunt on your machine.
- On a Mac follow these instructions
- On Ubuntu follow these instructions
Use npm to install Grunt and Bower globally on your system (may require sudo)
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install -g bower
With Npm/Bower installed
From the root of the project, you should be able to run the following:
npm install
bower install
grunt serve
To build the project, simply run "grunt" static build artifacts will be placed in the dist/ folder
grunt
With Docker installed
From the root of the project, you should run:
docker build -t splainer .
Who?
Created by OpenSource Connections
License
Released under Apache 2