The SF Data Mining meetup focuses on all aspects of the data pipeline--from data acquisition and big data storage to machine learning and data visualization. Current Goals Host speakers Host educational workshops Host volunteer events Highlight existing events around the bay area and organize transportation, etc Spread awareness of rising data mining technologies Who is this meetup for? Data engineers, analysts, scientists, and other practitioners Data visualization developers and designers J …

This data visualization meetup is organized every month by Visual.ly. Our purpose is to bring together all people interested, involved and passionate about data visualization. We're starting in SF and will bring it to other cities soon! Anyone interested in data visualization should join.

This group enables members to: 1.            Share BIG Data technology [applications using very large structured and unstructured datasets] experiences between members 2.            Impart some hands-on  training to newcomers to BIG Data 3.            Learn about applications of BIG Data in their line of business, including applications relevant to SMB Group is led by three technologists with substantial business and technical insights with a combined experience of more than 75 years, includin …

This is a meetup for Bay Area users of Spark (www.spark-project.org), the high-speed Scala-based cluster programming framework. We'll be rotating among locations in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Berkeley. We'll also discuss other Spark-related projects, including the Hive-on-Spark port (Shark), and other new programming tools for big data. The meetup will include introductions to the various Spark features, case studies from current users, best practices for deployment and tuning, and futur …

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 …

In the 21st Century successful teams are data-driven. This monthly meetup provides a forum for monitoring geeks to gather and trade new ideas, data, and war stories. If you love data, this meetup is for you!

The explosion of advertiser tracking, both on mobile devices and the web, has led to new Engineering problems to combat the loss of individual privacy. To this effect, the SF Privacy Engineering group serves as a gathering point for developers who work on efforts to identify, quantify, or mediate privacy data on the web and mobile. The purpose of the group is to help the Developer community network as well as learn and discuss engineering efforts in the Privacy space. We're open to all kind …

Today is the age of Scalable Systems and Big Data. Providing a meetup where we can discuss innovation, solutions and have pub nights for drinking and socializing.

Are you a developer interested in learning how to summarize, visualize and interpret your data? Are you building a website or application that needs to be smarter in making predictions, segmenting users, or generating recommendations? Come by and meet with other developers and learn about best practices, hear about what’s new in building data-driven applications, and drink some free beer.

EdgeSpring is a San Mateo based Kleiner-Perkins & Lightspeed Startup in the business intelligence and analytics space. This group was formed as a forum for fostering community by bringing together companies that are using the technology as well as those interested in learning more. Join this group if you are interested in innovative business intelligence technology, data visualization, big data, and more. Join if you are a business analyst or a business user of BI and want to find new an innovat …

San Francisco PyData is a group for data nerds who use Python and the available libraries: Matplotlib, NumPy, Pandas, NetworkX, etc.

This group covers everything related to distributed data processing and one key focus is Mesos as a platform for creating distributed systems. Topics will include ops and tools for running mesos on cloud infrastructure or in a custom data center, data processing with spark, realtime data processing with storm and how to build custom schedulers.

MESS: Media/Entertainment & Scientific Storage. This group is all about large files, big data, and workflow optimization. It's a place that peers can talk about storage challenges, discuss ways of dealing with them, and hear about the new technologies that are making a difference. Food, fun and smart storage people, all in one place.

If you're a marketer, agency, or entrepreneur engaged with the adtech space on a daily basis, you know that data is an ever-increasingly component of online and offline marketing decisions. But one can easily get lost in the morass that is database marketing and all of its tentacles - audiences, segments, targeting, data providers, marketing platforms, etc. The key is: Activation. Let's informally get together in the City to discuss data activation strategies, success stories, lessons learned, a …

Are you interested in open access to data so it can be used to build new services and reveal new insights? In that case join our next Open Data Bay Area event to find others interested in and working with these topics! We are a group of thinkers, planners and doers meeting once a month to hear talks, get updated, spread news and meet other open data enthusiasts. In this forum you will meet lots of key people with a passion for open data, including open data advocates, data owners, and specialist …

Big Data is in vogue, its the new buzzword. But what is Big Data? Do we know all the pieces of the Big Data puzzle? This group will cover all the five pieces of Big Data - Infrastructure, Data Storage/Management, Data Sciences, Visualization and one missing piece. We will cover one piece of the puzzle in every meetup. The idea is to have a holistic view of Big Data.

A group devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the San Francisco Bay area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data analytical solutions.

New tools and technologies appear daily for ingesting, munging, storing, processing, analyzing, visualizing data. These things don't often fit cleanly into existing groups. Wherever possible, we invite the authors and creators to join us to share with us their work -- be it in the form of a presentation, workshop, or happy hour. Events are held throughout the SF Bay Area. This is the sister group of the Data SF Bay LinkedIn group.

Let's use open source technology to fix the financial industry! Large financial institutions caused the Great Recession, but regulators have not reformed them. Before the next crisis hits, let's create a suite of open source financial models and feed them with big data. We can use these technologies to figure out which assets are risky and which aren't. Rather than wait for top down financial reform from Washington DC, we can do it from the group up.

Group for anyone looking for a starting point and doing some real time interaction with Hadoop. In particular with Hue, a Web application providing access to MapReduce, Hive, HDFS, Oozie, Impala, Pig, Sqoop. Also interested in hearing about use cases, pain-points... about using Hadoop and how getting familiar with and exploring different angles of the platform for a better exploring and analyzing data could be improved. Hue open source project: http://cloudera.github.com/hue/

This is a group to connect Big Data start ups and entrepreneurs in San Francisco for networking, pitches, workshops, demonstations and much more. This group is ideal for: * Big Data Startup Companies * Entrepreneurs * Developers and Programmers * Investors * Big Data Recruiters * Big Data Service Providers

Big Data Silicon Valley was created to help demystify big data, explore interesting use cases in different industries, go over some opportunities in the market and share tools that are available for your big data projects. We'll also go over what are some opportunities that startups can tap into in this industry. Why should you care: Big data will drive $120 billion of IT spending in 2013, according to Gartner. 93% of businesses feel like they're losing money by not being able to use the infor …

Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time, interactive analytical datastore. It was created to allow consistently fast, multidimensional ad-hoc drill-down type querying for large quantities of data - in real time. If you're searching for a solution beyond what proprietary column oriented, or in memory data stores offer both in price and capability - then join us. The Bay Area Druid User Group is dedicated to bringing together users and developers of Druid to exchange knowledge, insight …

This is a group for anyone interested in big data technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analysis, data visualization, etc. All skills levels are welcome. I have started this group for big data professionals to network and learn the latest in the big data technology. Looking forward to having lively discussions about the cutting edge big data technology and its impact on the business world.

This group is for those interested in the power of social media and web analytics. We will be discussing best practices and challenges faced when managing the vast amount of data now available.

SF Data Engineering hosts events where the lead engineers from pre-screened companies showcase their technical challenges. ONLY ENGINEERS can attend. If you are not an engineer, please be aware that you may be removed from the group. Software engineers are presently faced with an ever-increasing amount of data as well as a plethora of options for open-source technologies to use to manage it. And the architectures required to process the data into useful information using machine learning, NLP, …

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

This is a forum for individuals, large and small business and non-profits, and legislative bodies to come together to discuss the most pressing internet, mobile, social media privacy issues of our day. I want to bring people to together specifically around the issues of privacy, legislation, and big data and each person's personal data. Social media and mobile privacy affects us all. What we put out there today will effect our future tomorrow: What do we really agree to as far as Terms and Condi …