Speaker Profile: Doug Turnbull (@softwaredoug)
Doug wants search to be central to more user experiences. As an author and speaker, Doug teaches other developers to program search to understand users. For clients, Doug uses his jedi mind tricks on search engines directly. These are the droids they’re are looking for! Doug makes a living as a search consultant at OpenSource Connections. He loves Python, C, and would like to learn more Ruby and Julia!
Doug is author of Relevant Search from Manning, created Quepid a search relevancy risk management tool, Splainer a Solr search results explanation tool and sandbox. He can be found at twitter @softwaredougand via email by dturnbull@opensourceconnections.com.
Doug will be presenting “The Ghost in The Search Machine” at 3PM Saturday. Let’s teach the old search engine new tricks! We can make it compare images, clump together at-risk students, and even predict the weather. In this talk, you’ll get an overview of search internals. But we’ll quickly switch to subverting search for our nefarious purposes. Our grand schemes will culminate with fun demos that push search into these new frontiers.
Sponsor Profile: Mosaik Solutions (@MosaikGlobal)
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