MassNow - intelligent church locator
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MassNow intelligent church locator Jakub Žitný, Thanduxolo Zwane
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MassNowintelligent church locator
Jakub Žitný, Thanduxolo Zwane
Outline● Goal
● Available technologies
○ Indexing and Search in real life
■ Elasticsearch, Solr, NoSQL dbs
○ Mobile IR
● Our solution
● Demo
● Future2/18
Goal (1)The “problem”
● one of the reasons people don’t go to church when they
travel is not knowing about the location of nearby
churches
● there is plenty of apps for searching
○ hotels
○ restaurants
○ gas stations
3/18
Goal (2)The plan
● a similar service for browsing and searching masses,
churches and religious institutions
● ability to find the closest and earliest masses
● api, website and android app
*mass is the ‘session’ in church that people visit on Sundays (and any other day)
4/18
● data
● API
○ FAST
○ SMART
● simple and easy-to-use apps for users
○ web
○ android
What do we need?
5/18
Available technologies (1)Data
● custom crawlers to retrieve data from available
websites into structured form in database instead of
manual collection of information
● Database
○ SQL or NoSQL or XML or files?
● Indexing and search
○ Solr vs. Elasticsearch6/18
Available technologies (2)API
● REST/SOAP/Other?
● works well with Solr/Elasticsearch
=> CouchDB + Elasicsearch
● fast, scalable NoSQL
● built-in REST API!
● Elasticsearch integration7/18
Available technologies (3)Website
● traditional PHP/Java/Python/Ruby/ASP.NET
● JavaScript
○ client side + server side (node.js)
○ goes very well with REST and JSON
○ express.js
○ ability to write everything we need 8/18
Available technologies (4)Android
● Google Maps API
● mobile smart search
○ SQLite
○ TouchDB
○ Couchbase Lite
○ or our own custom solution? 9/18
Our solution
and many others:● elasticsearch-HQ, BigDesk, Kibana● eventbus, robospice, retrofit, okhttp, butterknife● node.js, express.js, nano, elasticsearch-js, jade-lang● twitter bootstrap
10/18
Demo - API
11/18
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Demo - API #
Demo - app
Demo - app
Future● design
● better smart search
● iOS, Windows Phone
● more data
● even more data
● even more design
● rule the world17/18
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