In a previous post I described a problem of data visualization and a possible solution provided by a plugin of elasticsearch. I noticed that elasticsearch might one day evolve to make the plugin unnecessary. That day seems to have come: starting from version 1.0.0, elasticsearch includes Aggregations, a new API for data mining. In this post I’ll […]
Server-side clustering of geo-points on a map using Elasticsearch
Plotting markers on a map is easy using the tooling that is readily available. However, what if you want to add a large number of markers to a map when building a search interface? The problem is that things start to clutter and it’s hard to view the results. The solution is to group results […]
Amsterdam Clojurians – my impression
It was a while ago, but I still wanted to share this my insight from Saturday 27th October, was the first all-day conference of the Amsterdam Clojurians which took place in the offices of Backbase. As a Clojure beginner and recent attendee of the meetup, I joined as it was a great opportunity to find a […]