We discuss all things Big Data including tools, use cases and especially opportunities around this emerging area of large scale data

For - IT managers, Ananlyst, Data Warehouse specialist, BI Developers, ETL developers, Data Architects, Business Analyst, BigData specialist, HANA, Hadoop, Hortonworks, Cloudera users

There are demands for good mathematicians to write algorithms that can churn through billions or trillions of data points and show where patterns emerge. The Economist data issue raised this issue as follows: "During the recent financial crisis it became clear that banks and rating agencies had been relying on models which, although they required a vast amount of information to be fed in, failed to reflect financial risk in the real world. This was the first crisis to be sparked by big data—and …

A San Francisco and Silicon Valley based group focused Oracle EPM, BI and Big Data Technologies including Endeca Information Discovery, Hyperion Essbase, Oracle BI and Analytics Applications, Big Data  including NoSQL, Hadoop, Cloudera, R, Oracle Data Integrator, Big Data Appliance, Exalytics, Master Data Management, DRM, Hyperion Planning, and Hyperion Financial Management, and an ever expanding suite of Oracle related technologies. Please join us as we share user experiences, problems and solu …

You have the questions? Our Gurus have the answers! Once every month, we will have one guru, in either Big Data or Cloud domain, answer questions impromptu from attendees.  Questions can be technical ("I am trying to setup Hadoop on my laptop") or non technical ("I am trying to understand players in Hadoop world") We also have a on-going hackathon series aimed at developers who want to learn hadoop.  These are hands on sessions where attendees learn and develop a new concept.

This is a group for all Big Data professionals to include programmers, architects, platform specialists like Hadoop, MongoDB, GreenPlum, Cloudera, Hortonworks etc. We welcome Engineers, IT Professionals, Architects, Data Scientists, Analytics Experts, Sales and Marketing Professionals, Entereneurs. We will be holding lectures, tutorials, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all professionals. We will feayure local, regional and international conferences with world famous …

Bay Area Storm Users is a group for developers and companies using Twitter's Storm real-time data processing and DRPC framework. We get together to discuss best practices, usage patterns, and to exchange ideas. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of …

This group is dedicated to organizing discussions, meetups, and events around data 2.0. The focus of data 2.0 is about utilizing the new avalanche of online data and new data-centric business models. The Data 2.0 organizers are also the producers of DataWeek.co Sept 22-27 in San Francisco as well as the Data 2.0 Summit (data2summit.com) We view "Old Data" is the practice of closing off your data, and data 2.0 hosting data online and making it accessible by other organizations. That includes big …

This is an IBM sponsored Big Data meetup group.  Geared towards developers, data scientists and ALL Big Data enthusiasts, our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data portfolio. Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology.  It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills.  We provide a cloud environment …

We will get together regularly to learn about Oracle database technologies and network with other Oracle professionals. All Oracle professionals are welcome including administrator, developer, data warehouse, engineer, architect, DBA, and data modeler. We will explore all Oracle technologies that relate to databases including RAC, Data Guard, PL/SQL development, tuning, Middleware Applications including Weblogic, Golden Gate, SOA, as well as some of the newer technologies such as Exadata, Exalyt …

Data Center Technologies? Technologies Flowing Through Data Centers? How Does A Data Center Make Their Money?

Data Science! It's all the talk these days! Our team, 0xdata, wants you to join the discussion about our new fast analytics engine, H2O. H20 is ran on top of HDFS. H20 makes it possible to learn bigdata at scale. H20 guarantees one thing: move code, not data. move fast. Join our group! Join the discussion!

This is a group for SAP HANA (in-memory database technology) adopters and hackers. This includes programmers, architects and experts who work on SAP HANA or are looking to learn more about it. The goal of this group is to share experiences with working on SAP HANA, or any other Big Data (Hadoop, MongoDB, GreenPlum, Cloudera, Hortonworks) integration scenarios. We will be holding lectures, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all members.

The SF Bay Area Big Data Think Tank brings together experts and visionaries from academia and the industry in : - Visualization, data infrastructure, and data science - Applications that leverage Big Data in areas such as advertising, marketing, eCommerce, CRM, security, etc. - Art and design, specially as it relates to data We host periodic talks, panel discussions and hackathons. Join us! Come Learn, Network & Share. Brought to you by The Hive that incubates, funds and launches businesses that …

This group is open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Solr, Hector, Open Source, NoSQL, DataStax, Apache Pig, and high scalability computing. Let's get together and share what we know.

This group is for everyone interested in real-time access to big data. We welcome developers, data scientists, analysts - everyone trying to figure out how to get access - and analysis - quickly; data in HDFS, S3, NoSQL databases, etc. Why did I form this group? There are a number of interesting Open Source and proprietary solutions trying to provide real-time access to Big Data and a high density of folks here in the Bay Area working on solutions. Industry analysts are saying "this is the year …

Big Brains is a speakers series with some of the top minds in Silicon Valley. All are welcome. Just bring your Big Brain along! We'll be hosting at least every other month, if not monthly. Look forward to seeing you at our office for one of our upcoming events in Mountain View.

Calling all newcomers transitioning to the field of Data Mining and Visualization in South Bay. Lets get-together to code, discuss projects, and materials that can help get jump started in this new and very exciting area. Looking forward to exploring and learning more about this field with you.

Analytics is sometimes an “afterthought” rather than a core function as part of decision making in companies. There is often a disconnect between what model or dashboard an analyst is building and where the business is actually going. However, when companies and departments are able to align the two, they turn the business onto its head and give competitors a run for their money. This group is for business users who want to learn and apply analytics to manage their business. Connect with like mi …

This is a group for discussing Big Data Applications, Analytics, Algorithms and Architectures . This group is intended towards big data evangalists, technologists, architects, Hadoop administrators, data mining experts, data scientists, cloud experts, NoSQL , developers, consultants, and experts. The meetup will have product demonstrations, use case discussions, presentations of architectures and implementations. The locations would be in South Bay Area ( Silicon Valley)

Data is more difficult to understand than text, let alone Big Data, and Big data is driving cloud computing now. Computation virtualization is not enough for big data, both data virtualization and communication virtualization are also necessary in order to make true Real-time Big Velocity Stream Computing happen We believe the true innovation lies on algorithmic innovation, not just hardware innovation or software innovation. Right now algorithm creation is an art instead of a science, and we f …

This meetup is about sharing knowledge & learning the latest developments about statistics, machine learning, math, analytics, parallel algorithms, distributed systems.

This group is an interactive, developer-friendly introduction to analytics, machine learning and data science topics. The focus will be on learning practical techniques to working with data. We will be doing R, Python, Ruby and a little bit of Java/C++. We will also focus on real-life problems in various domains such as healthcare, energy etc. and apply data to solve those problems. Oh, btw - G.O.D.s => Geeking-out on data science. :-) See you there.

Hazelcast is an open source in-memory data grid that helps you to build Highly Scalable and Available applications. Join this group if you want to learn more about Hazelcast, in-memory data grids and some similar technologies. Let's share our ideas, work on case studies and dive into the technology.

Join Big Data Marketing in the Bay Area for exclusive invitations to BlueKai hosted data marketing focused events. Audience targeting driven by 3rd party data intelligence is crucial to achieving scale and efficiency for any digital media plan. BlueKai sits at the center of this growing industry as a DMP solution. From this position we interact with agencies, marketers, service and data providers. Our goal is to help cultivate relationships between data buyers and sellers through Bay Area events …

While data volume grows, our ability to drive the value out of it depends on the depth of knowledge we carry on the domain/vertical we are seeking insights into. This group primarily focuses on using Big Data for business changes and transformation and ensuring that the transformation happens in a secure manner with exploding device counts.

Database Meets Solid State, a Silicon Valley based community group, provides a meeting point for people interested in the intersection of flash memory and database acceleration. Use cases include: Cloud computing, Big Data, Virtualization, and Analytics. Our mission: Bring together people interested in learning, presenting, and networking with others about improving their database performance and how solid state storage makes that happen. Host for our first meeting is Skyera.  We plan to have re …

The Big Big Crazy World of Big Data... The mission of this group is to bring leaders in our community, who are interested in the powers of Big Data together - - Providers, Implementers, Trainers, Analysts, and Key Business Decision Makers (and Techies are invited too) This will be a group effort to learn from each other 'Best Practices' and 'Pitfalls' around Big Data; and help us Navigate the Choices and Confusions