Are you working with data, as a hobby or career? Do you want to connect with people who are? We are a multidisciplinary group for people passionate about data. We welcome all backgrounds, including scientists, geeks, engineers, statisticians, analytics fans, business intelligence curious, bioinformaticians, philosophers, economists, entrepreneurs, or just pure enthusiasts. Watch this space for Data Insights meetups! If you can't wait, you can join our Cambridge meetups at  http://www.meetup.com/ …

DNAdigest is a charity created to shake up genomics research: loads of DNA sequencing data is being generated, but not enough data is being shared between researchers, a fact which is a huge barrier for the advancement medical research. With our not-for-profit organisation DNAdigest we are proposing a technically simple and elegant solution that to a great extent will solve the problem of secure data sharing for research. Our biggest challenge is not the implementation of the solution, but to en …

BRUM is a group for R users at all levels and from all backgrounds based in and around Birmingham (UK) and the West Midlands, to meet and discuss R-related topics and to promote the use of R. R is a free/open source project and is the leading software for data analysis, statistics and data visualisation. Anyone with a background or interest in R is welcome! Sponsorship for this event is kindly provided by The Data Mine Ltd.

Group of people interested in CouchDB and the associated ecosystem (e.g. rich html5 applications, MVC & asynchronous javascript, big data, data visualisation). More information can be found on http://bristol.couchdb.org/

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Manchester Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Manchester to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

R is an open source data analysis, data visualization and statistical programming language. Use of R is rising exponentially in the business and academic arenas and it is used by companies such as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America and Shell. SheffieldR is an opportunity for anyone with an interest in R to meet up, listen to a couple of interesting presentations on R implementations and then network over a drink. The events are free and anyone, at whatever level of R skill, is welcome to att …

This group discusses the design and implementation graph databases with a focus on distributed architectures. These databases use graph structures with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store information. You should join if you need to deliver systems and services for social networking, business intelligence, scientific research, or similar areas requiring fast discovery of higher-order relationships (node to edge graph structures) in large, distributed data.

Satellite Applications Catapult will be a base for space related hackathons at the newly refurbished HQ in Didcot. We will be hosting events lasting 2 days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming: This 48-hour hackathon is to build new web and mobile services revolving around satellite data. Solutions can range from predicting natural disasters, Climate change, anything you can think of to tantalize the judges, using a wealth of satellite data. Cat …

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Reading Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Reading to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

Traditional marketing is insufficient to address needs of today's customers. Science of marketing is now based on customer insights - understanding where the demand is and positioning and developing presence where opportunities exist. Well, it's time to do a remix of the traditional marketing mix. ReMix is just not about marketing but we talk all things about data, analytics, new technologies, product development, pricing, business models and new channels. We will inform, inspire, connect, sourc …

The local user group for people interested in sql server and related technologies - there's usually pizza!

We're a community lead user group in the heard of Manchester, helping, aiding and teaching the leading NoSQL Database, MongoDB!

The aim of this group is to build a network of people interested in recommender systems and give them a forum for presenting and discussing ideas. We are a mixed group of people from research, industry, education, design and startups. If you have an interest in recommender systems, come and join us.

To join this forum please just answer two questions below and send us your profile picture. This social group is for TV, online and mobile media professionals located in the UK and Ireland. Vizrt UK is a team committed to helping fellow TV and digital platform professionals like you to enhance your brand with real-time graphics, to get the most out of your digital media assets and to publish integrated digital online and mobile content in the most attractive and cost-efficient way. If you would …

A group for the application of cutting-edge HPC & GPU supercomputing technology to cutting-edge business problems. With an emphasis on the useful application of supercomputing by practitioners, for practitioners. Note: We have a sister groups that meet in New York, Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley, Paris, Seattle, Washington DC, Tokyo, Australia, India, and elsewhere.

A Leeds based meet-Up for those interested in Riak, distributed systems, NoSql, and app development.

MongoDB User Group for all levels! We'll aim to meet once a month and discuss implementing MongoDB - mainly from the developer's perspective. MongoDB is a NoSQL database - more info on MongoDB is available at http://www.mongodb.org/ We'll also be following the MongoDB online training run by 10gen. Venue for meetups is yet to be decided, but it will be in Cambridge. We'll wait to see how much interest there is before booking the Corn Exchange! We're also on the look out for sponsors and/or hosts, …