The Kansas City Big Data Group seeks to learn by sharing the projects and ideas associated with what McKinsey Global Institute calls Big Data. Big Data analysis will be the productivity engine that fuels the future. Gather it, mine it, compare it, follow it and Big Data will show us how to make everything better. Healthcare, manufacturing, customer relationships, logistics, civil planning...there is no end to the benefits from the proper, secure and de-identified use of Big Data.

Open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Hector, NoSQL, Pig, and high scalability. Let's get together and share what we know.

Overview: This group is for anyone whose job, passion or business involves setting up, managing or interpreting web analytics, Google analytics or marketing metrics. Our meetings focus on practical discussion and learning. Who Should Join: Product Managers, Brand Managers, Bloggers, Business Owners and Webmasters should find the groups focus and content valuable for better capturing, understanding and reacting to the increasing amount of valuable web analytics and marketing data capable of bein …