Data Science Chicago brings together people interested in data science: the analytical "statistics and machine learning" side, the creative "visualization and design" side, the verbal "communication and story-telling" side, and especially the areas in-between those extremes. This group is organized by Datascope Analytics. Members are professionals, students, consultants and entrepreneurs that love data and understand the potential value it brings for society, business and government. Meeting t …

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 pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us! more at http://www.neo4j.org

Data 2.0 Chicago is the Midwest arm of the DataWeek.co and Data2Summit.com events in San Francisco. We host over 500 innovative data companies from Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce to MongoDB, Kaggle, and InfoChimps at our yearly conferences & summits. Topics cover big data, cloud data, NoSQL, API's and mashups, open data initiatives, and data platforms. The Data 2.0 meetup group is for entrepreneurs, data scientists, investors, engineers, database admins, data architects, and professionals in …

Welcome to the Chicago Jaspersoft User Group. The goal of this group is to get together to learn, share, and collaborate with others that are working with or want to work with the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, including: * JasperReports * iReport and Jaspersoft Studio * JasperReports Server * Jaspersoft ETL The members of the group will help to decide on topics for future meetings, present their experiences, and learn from each other.

- Bringing together data scientists, computational scientists, and folks interested in data analytics, scientific computing, and visualization. - Promoting data computing as a way to enhance computational outcomes and add value to the bottom line. - Fostering a collaborative culture between government labs, industry, the non-profit sector, and academia in the Chicagoland area.

This meetup is to help bring together dev and ops folks in chicagoland area working with Hbase to exchange notes and discuss ideas for roadmap

We will look at practical, real-world scenarios that leverage Riak, exploring best-practices, pitfalls, and strategies. Our goal is to bring in speakers from the community as well as from Basho itself, to help share experiences and solutions to help members get the most out of Riak and learn from each others' approaches and mistakes.

Are you a student, techy, entrepreneur, or weekend-warrior who uses tools from Machine Learning in your research, business applications, or small projects? Would you like to meet like minded people from the Northwestern and Chicago community who work with and develop these tools? Would you like to expand your knowledge of Machine Learning/Data Mining and its applications, and/or get involved in hackathons with a diverse group of data scientists?  Then come check us out! PLEASE RSVP FOR EVENTS SO …

The Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association was established to foster interest in statistical methods. We want to promote unity among analytical professionals, and aim to make information concerning statistical science available in order to stimulate research, and promote high professional standards. It is our hope to make statistics useful to practical affairs, for the advancement of society as a whole.

This group is for anyone interested in discussing and learning more about applied business analytics. All skill and knowledge levels are welcome. This group is being formed to promote the growth and open exchange of information on a subject that tends to be closed as a result of organizations protecting what they consider to be a strategic competitive advantage.

This meet up is for anyone that is impacted by Big Data in their business, professional, and personal realms. We are starting this meet up to educate and demystify everything around Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, Hive, PIG, Datameer, R, etc. and help understand how these new technologies fit within traditional enterprises that have architectures around Mainframe, Windows, Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, Exadata etc. It is one thing to know technology and another to leverage it appropriatel …

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 platform. 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 …

This is a group created to advance the education and awareness of Apache Hadoop and the 100% open source distribution Hortonworks. It will focus on salient topics to educate and advance Apache Hadoop.

This group is for professionals, thought leaders and researchers dedicated to Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, BI, Cloud Analytics, Cloud BI, Social Media Analytics, Sensor Data Analytics, Data Integration, Data Warehouse Appliances, Data Visualization, Data Management, etc. In short, this is a networking community focused on emerging technologies (Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.), and strategies that allow enterprises to leverage their data assets so they may better …

This group is to foster knowledge about data management and meet to learn more about a broad set of topics such as MDM, data quality, trends in analytics/dashboarding, Big Data and what it means to you, open source alternatives for data integration and database technology, getting more out of your data warehouse, data appliances, etc. We will meet 6+ times per year to dive into a series of topics that will be educational and technical, and not simply vendor advertisements.  The forum online wil …

This group is to bring together those interested in or working with Big Data, Analytics & Business Intelligence. Understanding and managing data is now a vital part of successful organizations. Share insight, challenges and experiences with like-minded individuals. Regardless of your experience, join the group for networking and an exploration of Big Data and Analytics.

Elasticsearch is a great way to add search capabilities to any website. The goal of this meetup group is to talk about and work with the latest features and capabilities of Elasticsearch, discuss the best ways to leverage it in our applications, and help introduce newcomers to the framework.