This group has monthly meetings which include timely topics and technical presentations from industry experts.  The topics covered include a wide range of  subjects such as SQL Server database, cubes, big data, non structured data, and reporting.  We want to hear from you and share our knowledge and experience too.  The group is free, dedicated to networking, sharing knowledge, and spreading BI best practices.  We are a SQL Pass Chpater. Also, - Please RSVP to the our meetings - we would love to …

data io is a NYC meetup that feeds the minds of curious people who are interested in big data. Join us in exploring the uses and implications of big data. We will host bi-monthly events where data lovers and inquiring minds can come to learn and socialize. Each meetup will include one or two guest speakers to help you discover new information and make connections with people, processes, and platforms that match your interests. This meetup is sponsored by Enigma Technologies.

Technical discussions about the convergence of Big Data and traditional data warehousing. We'll meet to exchange ideas, products, projects and solutions that are creating new methods and techniques to analyze data.

The Boston Data Mining meetup focuses on making data mining accessible to everyone. It aims to be inclusive to all regardless if you are a beginner or expert in statistical modeling, machine learning, data mining, or any of the analytics (business, predictive, etc). Our talks will focus on the practical side of data mining and analytics by showing attendees how to perform data modeling in a non-programming environment. To achieve that goal we employ RapidMiner; an open source data mining platfor …

Data is all the rage these days, often presented as the next big trend in the evolution of the Web, and the next big opportunity for internet entrepreneurs. This Meetup focuses on the business aspects of the data revolution: startup opportunities, new products, business models, funding trends, emerging players, and ways for existing startups to leverage their data. Technical aspects will also occasionally be discussed, but attendees do not need to have a technical background. While hosted at Blo …

This Meet-up is dedicated to Agencies and Media Companies that are using 'Big Social Data" in innovative and exceptional ways. We are looking for like minded professionals that live Social Media within Agencies and Media Companies or for their Brands they manage. This group will be fun and relaxed,and share Best Practices from some of the Best Social Marketers in NYC. Global Agencies and Local Niche players will share their insights and best practices. We will meet every 4-6 weeks in NYC @ a uni …

Data 2.0 NYC is the East Coast arm of Data 2.0 conferences including DataWeek Conference & Festival (dataweek.com) and the Data 2.0 Summit (data2summit.com). We host events and meetup groups in the NYC area as well. Data 2.0 focuses in Big Data, Social Data, and Open Data as they relate to making data more accessible online. We connect data entrepreneurs, investors, professionals, and media.

"Smart Data" refers to the high-value data used to inform business decisions. Our interest is in comprehensive enterprise solutions, from ingestion of data through to business insight. This includes: large-scale physical systems, virtual/cloud systems, operational systems such as Hadoop, BI tools, and techniques to drive business decisions

Please stay tuned.  I will be posting new information for a Big Data event that is in the works.  John 10.07.12

Are you interested in data science but also passionate about international development? Then this is the meetup for you! Let's get together to explore how the rapidly growing areas of data science and big data can transform the world of international development and contribute to improving the lives of the billions of underprivileged and poor people in the world.

Visualizing big data sets with easy-to-read illustrations can help tell a story and make complex data easier to understand by more people. Hear this panel of experts discuss a range of vizualizations that may help in efforts to resist and transform criminalization: "Data Visualization in the Newsroom" Amanda Hickman, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism "Visualizing Stop and Frisk Data" Maria Elene Torre, Brett Stoudt, and Scott Lizama, Morris Justice Project "Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Re-Tel …

This group will concentrate on understanding the tools and skill-sets needed to become an effective Data Scientist. We will explore all topics related to the data lifecycle including acquiring new data sets, parsing new data sets, filtering and organizing data, mining data patterns, advanced algorithms, visually representing data, telling stories with data and softer skills such as negotiations and selling your ideas based upon data.

Hello Data Divas! Let's get this meetup started for all the ladies out there who love, work and breathe DATA! If you are interested in making new friends and connecting on all things data and digital-let our conversations begin. And have fun!

Fancy meeting up with other IT virtualization enthusiasts in NY & NJ to socialise and chat over a cold beer, wine or soft-drink? This is a great opportunity to meet with other virtualization enthusiasts and Data Center professionals and enjoy discussing all things virtualization, and in fact anything else that comes up in conversation… The Software Defined Data Center provides any and all IT Services to any application, on any hardware, over any transport or network protocol, to any hypervisor. …

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

The Analytics Professionals group was created to provide a forum for those in Boston to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using an analytic platform such as ParAccel to drive business value. With the variety and volume of data available these days from a number of sources (RDBMS, web logs, sensor data, social media, etc.) we're interested in discussing how you begin to make sense of all this data and derive real business value from it.

Boston Storm Users is a group for developers using or hoping to learn about Twitter's Storm real-time data processing framework. We get together to discuss best practices, to exchange ideas and to learn how to apply Storm to various engineering challenges. 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 …

You should join this group if you use Vertica and/or would like to learn more, share information and best practices and meet really awesome people. This is also a place to discuss modern business intelligence (BI) and techniques of dealing with Really Big Data. There are many of us who are not satisfied with traditional monster slow and expensive data warehouses and BI systems and are switching to Vertica. Vertica is sponsoring and participating in our group. Compete inc will be partnering in th …

The New England Netezza User Group(NENUG) is for Netezza users interested in meetings and discussions topic such as Netezza best practices and Netezza use-cases. The Group will promote open communication between IBM’s Big Data Group and NENUG members concerning the Netezza appliance or the integration of the platform with other IBM products and services.

This is your chance to prototype your ideas before going to VCs or for seed funding. We all have dream applications that need machine learning and predictive analytics. We can hack those app. using available machine learning APIs (from Microsoft, Google, BigML, BPA EyeQ, and so on). No need to learn those complicated math or gymnastics of matrices. This is also your way to find a co-founder, good developers, and some good feedback. By the way, investors are also welcome; coding is good for our …

You should join this group if you use Vertica and would like to learn more, share information and best practices and meet really awesome people. This is also a place to discuss modern business intelligence (BI) and techniques of dealing with Really Big Data. There are many of us who are not satisfied with traditional monster slow and expensive data warehouses and BI systems and are switching to Vertica. There is currently no group for Vertica users in NYC and the entire East Coast and adMarketpl …

Public tech talks hosted by Yieldbot. We'll go into detail about technology that we've used to build our platform, with invited guests to do the same. We've employed a broad range of technologies in developing our platform and want to give back to the community by sharing our real world experience working with them. Our talks will be strong on Javascript, Python, and Clojure, and delve into the technologies around "Big Data" analytics, distributed realtime ad matching, visualization of large dat …

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to brush up your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

NY Graph is a place for people to learn about and discuss graph structures, graph theory, graph databases and related topics. We host technical presentations and lectures, product demos, lightning talks, seminars, town hall-style open forums and hands-on tutorials, in addition to less-structured monthly gatherings. Why graphs? Why now? Graph structures and methods are being used everywhere. As the size of datasets being generated, processed, and presented continues to grow, the relative strengt …

New IT and business challenges abound as cloud-scale computing and storage become a reality.  These challenges must be addressed by innovative, cost effective products and solutions.  SGI and Scality together address these challenges.  The solution is a high performance infrastructure for Internet applications that accommodates millions of users, tens of millions of transactions and billions of files, while providing the tools to deliver 'always on' services and ubiquitous access to data.

The goal of this meetup is present informative lectures, hands-on tutorials, networking events, etc, towards helping the local community further it's understanding and proficiency regarding Predictive Analytics.  Our group has three main focal points:  business applications, advanced mathematics, and computer science; with topics covering Recommeder Systems, Machine Learning, Google Analytics, Data Visualization, Social Media / Text Analytics, and related topics.  Predictive Analytics are levera …

A collective of developers, designers, researchers, artists, occupiers, and hackers discovering new ways of relating to the Occupy movement through data analysis and transformation.

Boston d3.js is a group specifically focused on data visualizations based on d3.js. If you haven't heard about d3, then you should probably check it out! http://d3js.org/ https://github.com/mbostock/d3 Our goal is to create a community of designers, developers and researchers interested in d3 in the Boston / Cambridge area. If you - Love d3.js - Interested in data visualization - Would like to learn some / more about it - Want to show / teach your d3 visualizations - or whatever reason you may h …