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

"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

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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!

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 …

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 …

Meet local professionals, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts interested in the Semantic Web. Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/lotico-list Homepage: http://www.lotico.com twitter tag: #lotico Please be advised that all public data of this meetup will be published as linked data on the world wide web. By acknowledging this welcome message you agree to this practice. If you have any questions about this practice please don't hesitate to ask the organizer of the group.

Welcome to the Boston 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.

Our group is for those interested in AI, machine learning, forecasting, recommendation systems, and building smarter applications.  We share experience and knowledge in the field, and help each other with ideas and projects. This is a group for sharing and learning about AI -- also eating and drinking. The community of AI programmers in New England is an important part of the vibrant software industry in the region, and contributes to the global trend toward improving products and infrastructu …

Elasticsearch is picking up steam in Bean Town. Let's share our experiences with it and strengthen the local community around it by introducing newcomers to the great features it has to offer.

Meet a new network of New England's bio entrepreneurs from business, academic, finance, scientific and medical communities. Our forum consists of discussions on emerging research and the commercialization and development of new technologies encompassing biotech, nanotech, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, environmental technology, information technology, healthcare, cell biology, life science research, pharmaceuticals, and drug discovery start-ups. It was designed for multi-disciplinary entrepre …

We're a group of Boston-area activists trying to make government more open and accessible.  We partner frequently with the Sunlight Foundation, other meetups like Hacks/Hackers and  the Boston Python user group, and local activists and office-holders to help make government more accountable at the national, state, and local level. We have: - monthly project nights, where folks can work on their own projects or our current group project, Open Cities - coffee shop meetups for folks to discuss open …

CHUG: Cloudera Hadoop User Group for Boston/New England area

This group will provide a place to meet and discuss potential use of existing technologies and practice in the service of improving education. I started this group because there is a rich community across disciplines that offer a wide variety of complex approaches to this topic that merit review in the context of the the education sector. I look forward to reviewing technologies, organizing some hands on labs, participating in dialogue, and pursuing innovative approaches with you.

For developers and analysts who are using Hadoop or would like to learn more about it. Also includes technologies built with/on top of Hadoop: Hive, Pig, HBase, etc.

Calling all Growth Hackers! Are you obsessed with growing your business through carefully designed and tested internet marketing? Do you like to A/B test everything you do in life? If so, you have come to the right place! We plan to gather the very best Growth Hackers in Boston to exchange ideas, brainstorm new growth hacks, and inspire each other to achieve new levels of growth hacking success! [growth hacker (noun) - one who’s passion and focus is pushing a metric through use of a testable and …

A quarterly meetup for those in the Boston/Cambridge area to talk about Riak, distributed systems and app development. We look at real-world scenarios that leverage Riak in production, exploring best practices, pitfalls and strategies.

Sonian, Inc. started this meetup in June 2011 in order to gather a group every two months to discuss topics that involve the cloud. Discussions vary from business models of the cloud to how to leverage big data, cloud challenges and solutions, etc. Everyone is welcome to this meetup group - those who work at cloud companies, cloud users, and anyone interested in the cloud. To maintain variety, each event has different speakers or panelists. We like to have as open of a discussion as possible - a …

Calling all cloud computing enthusiasts and professionals? Want to be part of a hot cloud computing community? This is for anyone interested in building and being part of the new Boston Cloud Computing 2.0 community. While there are other cloud computing and virtualization groups, we provide, encourage and support networking, referrals, sharing best practices and support for the Boston cloud computing community and companies that use or will use cloud computing. We feature unique high level netw …

Fellow web entrepreneurs and VCs gather once a week in Cambridge, MA to grab some coffee, free WiFi, and chat about what's new. Around the world, tech entrepreneurs and investors are meeting regularly to drink coffee, network and hopefully do deals. No more of the old-school "please send us your executive summary before we'll even talk to you". A place to find opportunities. Where and when is it? Held every Wed morning from 8:30a-10:30am at Voltage Coffee, 3rd St, Cambridge, MA http://www.yelp. …

Our monthly events are not your typical software engineering events and will cover a wide range of software programming related topics, techniques, frameworks, and technologies from local companies and educational institutions.  Events will either consist of speakers, panels, or training sessions.  The focus is placed on emerging technologies alongside current technologies and techniques. We will provide information on application development, software engineering, HTML5, Hadoop, Python, Eclipse …