The omnipotent big data group that is all things to do with dealing with, managing, handling and delivering big data, in the mild mild South West. Topics include MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Node.js, scaling, engineering data, open-source, linkeddata, and beer. Discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/south-west-big-data.

BRUM is a group for R users at all levels and from all backgrounds based in and around Birmingham (UK) and the West Midlands, to meet and discuss R-related topics and to promote the use of R. R is a free/open source project and is the leading software for data analysis, statistics and data visualisation. Anyone with a background or interest in R is welcome! Sponsorship for this event is kindly provided by The Data Mine Ltd.

Data Science London, the #datascience community We are a non-profit professional organisation dedicated to the free, open, dissemination of data science. We are a community of data scientists that meets regularly to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. Follow us on twitter @ds_ldn Read our blog www.datasciencelondon.com We'll have …

Gathering of people who are interested in data visualization. Speaker series - watch and listen to fellow designers, statisticians, mathematicians, architects, programmers, start ups, and other great people in the industry. Have a cool data visualization to show? Questions to ask? Want to meet others who have a data driven mindset? Let's meetup and talk d3/Gephi Bringing together data visualizers across London.

Hi Big Data enthusiasts my names Nathan, I'm a regular attendee at many of the Big Data meet ups decided this rapidly expanding space is in need of some hiring solutions to help both employers and employees find suitable matches in confidence. So please, if you’re on here or your employee is it doesn’t mean you/they are looking but you may be contacted by someone who is! I hope people will just use it just like any other job board but it’s free and with the benefit of it being our market specif …

Welcome to the meetup around anything a Apache Hive. Hive is a powerful tool to explore and process big data quickly and easily. It can be an important building block in a data pipeline and data analysis. We are interested in anything related to Hive including Hadoop, cloud computing, testing, development processes, best practices, use cases, data analysis, data processing, data cleaning, NoSQL, SQL, HiveQL, denormalization, map-reduce, big data, and more. Join and contact us if you want to pres …

This is a meetup about business use of social data. Like me you may be wanting to use Social data (aka Social media data, big data, unstructured data) to drive your organisation ahead but have discovered it's not quite as easy as it looks. You may be asking questions like: What social data should I use and why? What can I learn from others who have used social data successfully in their business? What are the key trends in the use of social data? Where can I meet with social data publishers fac …

Meetup to discuss and get help on practical open source Business Intelligence focussed on Jaspersoft

This is a networking group for those interested in Big Data & the Cloud. It is open to all Big Data and Cloud specialists in London who like to share their experiences and ideas. Organised by eSynergy Solutions, an IT recruitment company based in the heart of the City. In early 2012 we set up a Cloud and Big Data division  specialising in recruiting for contract and permanent Big Data technical positions. We work with Big Data Vendors, Specialised Consulting companies and end user clients to fi …

This group is for women who love data; big or small. Whether you work in data or want to know what the fuss is all about. Let's get together to share experiences, learn and shout about our achievements. The group format will be directed by the needs of it's members. At whatever stage of your career and whatever your specialty be it a Statistician, Developer, Visualizer, Journalist or a little of everything we hope to have a place for everyone to develop. We hope to get women working on interesti …

This group is for all those interested in using predictive analytics to identify patterns in the large amount of data now available. It's a place to share challenges, experiences and best practices. Any skills levels are welcome!

Open to all interested in PyData, NumPy, SciPy, etc

We are a community of data scientists, technologists and analyts that work with data. This is a new meetup that aims to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics, distributed data analytics, Pig, Hive, data mining, machine learning, scalable data analytics, predict …

DataScienceLab - A meetup for data scientists, or those interested in data science (hacking data) to come together to build an output focussed community directed towards the practical aspects or the doing of data science. The primary focus of this group will be on doing good with data science through hackathons and other data hacking projects & events arranged in association with organisations actively involved in the making our world into a better place; charities, NGOs etc. Meetup schedule wil …

Are you interested in Twitter's open source distributed realtime computation framework "Storm" & based in London? Then this meetup is for you. We get together to share use cases, experiences and tips on how to use this framework. "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." Project GitHub Group photo courtesy of Paul Bica

This group has been formed to explore and discuss the practice of Live Cinema and its related technology, approaches and possibilities. Its goal is to bring this diverse collection of artists together to share knowledge with the aim of forming a new legal entity under the title "Live Cinema Foundation". This new organisation will to support the presentation, development and publication of new forms of analogue and digital culture that exist at the intersection between film, music and the perform …

The local user group for people interested in sql server and related technologies - there's usually pizza!