This is a meetup group for those interested in the DevOps movement.

Monthly MeetUp group for practitioners of Machine Learning, Statistics, AI, and other aspects of "Data Science". Do you want to learn more about using R and nltk? Or Apache Mahout and Giraph? Do you write your own custom NLP code, and want to compare notes with others of your clan? We're going to try and alternate locations between Seattle Proper and the Eastside, to get a little bit of balance. Let's see if we can balance our time between formal presentations / talks, and breakout white …

WA is the home to the two biggest cloud service platforms (Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure). However, a platform is as good as what you do with it. This is a hands-on group for anybody, who wants to do something useful with popular IaaS, PaaS or SaaS cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Rackspace cloud/OpenStack, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Joyent, Heroku, Force.com, and others). The definition of "useful" is limited only by your imagination :-) The format of the meetu …

A monthly gathering for Seattle area tech junkies. More specifically, those focused on storage, HPC, and general IT. Industry guys, IT guys, nerds, geeks, tech philosoraptors, whatever.... Whether 3 or 30 this should be good times to get together talk shop, learn from peers, or just have some beers and a good time. Only a couple of rules: 1. No management, No selling, No recruiting 2. BYOA (bring your own AMEX) Industry guys or those with P-Cards will typically be covering festivities but this i …

Interested in Distributed Databases, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Neo4j? Predictive or Realtime analytics? Data/text mining? Join us! Everyone loves use cases. If you would like to present one to the group, send me a note at lynn@lynnbender.com. Lightning talks are welcome too.

If you want to join a group that is focused on user research and usability, then this is the place! Come swap strategies and war stories with folks who are practicing user research and usability every day. Need help figuring out how to test your latest mobile app? Want to become a better interviewer? Looking for ideas to pitch your boss on a bigger usability budget? Whether you are the only researcher at your company, or 1 of 1,000 - your stories and strategies are needed!

SAPUG (originally founded in 1985) is for all developers, vendors, and end-users in the greater Seattle area who use Multi-Value (aka "Pick") databases. This includes Universe, UniData, Revelation, jBase, General Automation, Reality, Mentor, D3, Ultimate, etc. There is no membership roster; all activities are self-funding, so we need your continued participation to keep SAPUG going. SAPUG meetings are a perfect place to network, trade tips and ideas, and keep in touch with other users such as yo …

The growth and popularity of Splunk is undeniable. Organizations are using it in new ways to capture and analyze a wide array of data and data types from many systems in an organization. This meetup will focus on how Splunk is being used today and various partner products of interest. Each meetup will have a live Splunk Indexer on wireless so attendees can use it and get hands-on experience with what is being talked about. Speakers will be encouraged to bring live demos that people can play with …

Splunk has grown from a simple log aggregation tool with a search to a tool that provides meaningful data from any source. This user group was created to focus on collaboration, solving real world Splunk problems, and more practical implementation similar to the Hackaton at .Conf. Whether you’re a Splunk app developer, search user, administrator, or just curious about using Splunk this group is for you. The hope is to help all user levels or get users in contact with the right people. Bring your …

“This is a group for anyone interested in Big Data. All skills levels are welcome."

Infobeasties meet on Tuesdays (bi-weekly - Advanced) and Wednesdays (weekly - Elementary) in a presentation/workshop setting to advance our skills in consumer/user level, self-service access and analytics of data in its many forms: localized, Enterprise, Cloud, Big Data, Semantic, XML, RDF, MD, OLAP, Data Warehouse, etc. Our base platform will be Excel, but we will be working with several client-based tools and tactics in our pursuit of Infogeasties (data sources), and how can we use them to ex …

Seattle Marketing Analytics Group is a collection of marketers and analysts that want to share best practices and learn about new trends. We want to start a group that gets together on a monthly basis for a casual gathering.

Data Management Association - Puget Sound is a non-profit professional organization whose objective is to promote and advance the concepts of data management in the Pacific Northwest. DAMA-PS members and guests meet monthly to widen their knowledge on topics relevant to information and data resource management. Members benefit from association meetings and special programs, as well as from opportunities to network with others in the same profession. Our chapter was a front-runner for what eventu …

From big, well-organized hackathons like Startup Weekend and AngelHack to small, ad hoc hackathons like a couple of friends in a coffee shop, we want to help increase the number of hackathons going on in Seattle, help support them, and help publicize them.

BlueKai invites you to join our engineering team for engineer focused events. For most events, BlueKai will provide the beer and pizza, and you provide the questions. BlueKai will continue to organize a variety of engineer focused events, from B^3- Bier, Brats, and Bocce, to Tech Talks during which we will bring a variety of subject matter experts into our Seattle office, and invite all interested engineers to stop by for informal presentations and conversation. We would love to see you at the n …

Open to all interested in the Hadoop and its surrounding ecosphere. Let us know what you would like to see! Do you have a presentation that you would like to share? Would your company like to host or sponsor a meetup? Send a note to data@lynnbender.com.