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Jayant Kumar
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Jayant Kumar

Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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Getting data points using facets


Let us refresh our memory about facets. Simply put, faceting refers to the method of categorizing data. A facet on a search result will contain categories and the number of documents in each category. The purpose of facets is to help the user narrow down his or her search result on the basis of some categories. Let us take an example to understand this better.

A search on mobile a phone would bring up a few of the following facets on the Amazon website:

  • Facet for Brand: We can see a facet for Brand in the following screenshot:

The brand facet is purely intended to help the user shortlist his or her preferences. The count of cell phones for each brand is not displayed, although this information is readily available and can be used for display.

  • Facet for display size: We can see the facet for display size in the following image:

The display size category shows facets based on the range of display sizes. Phones having sizes of less than 3.9 inches are grouped together...

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Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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