Having never worked at Google, Yahoo, Facebook, or any other Silicon valley company widely applying MapReduce, as former Chief Scientist of several Silicon Valley start-ups, Analytics Architect of The LikeMinds Personalization Server, and former Sr. Software Engineer/Statistician at IBM, all of a sudden I'm being left behind. How about you? We are smart, superbly trained, exceedingly experienced in "big-data", power computer users, and programmers in dozens of now unfortunately passe' programmin …

Hive is a scalable data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop. It provides tools to enable easy data ETL, a mechanism to put structures on the data, and the capability to querying and analysis of large data sets stored in Hadoop files. Hive defines a simple SQL-like query language, called HiveQL, that enables users familiar with SQL to query the data. At the same time, this language also allows programmers who are familiar with the MapReduce fromwork to be able to plug in their custom …

There are meet-ups and there are meet-ups! So, why add another meet-up? Well, we felt that it’s time that there should be a meet-up wholly dedicated to all things around “ Big Data” & “ Cloud Computing”. Mankind has never seen so much data as it is seeing today; Big Data is a serious challenge for all businesses, small and big. Cloud Computing technologies are changing the way we conceptualize, design & develop business solutions. These two buzzwords need to lose their “buzz” status and becom …

Business measurement, modeling and metrics have become critical to businesses of all sizes and across all industries. In today's competitive environment, executives need to be at the top of their game when it comes to understanding their business performance. There is data everywhere about the market, competitors, customers and businesses, but getting to the core of the information, and turning that data into an advantage is challenging. This group brings together executives from multiple indust …

You have the questions? Our Gurus have the answers! Once every month, we will have one guru, in either Big Data or Cloud domain, answer questions impromptu from a small group of attendees , on a one-on-one basis. (Think MTV Unplugged!).  Questions can be technical ("I am trying to setup Hadoop on my laptop") or non technical ("I am trying to understand players in Hadoop world") These sessions will have no commercial bias whatsoever, no sponsorships, no sales or marketing pitches - just pure deve …

This is a group of users and others interested in using and learning more about open source business intelligence tools grouped together under the name of Pentaho. These include Weka (machine learning), Kettle for loading data into a database (ETL), Montrian (OLAP), and other java-based applications for reporting.

Bay Area Storm Users is a group for developers and companies using Twitter's Storm real-time data processing and DRPC framework. We get together to discuss best practices, usage patterns, and to exchange ideas. 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 with any programming language, and is a lot of …

A Bay Area based Hadoop user group focused on helping Hadoop users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems.

This Meetup group supports the SF Bay ACM Chapter.  You can join the actual SF Bay Chapter by coming to a meeting - most meetings are free, and our membership is only $20/year ! The chapter has both educational and scientific purposes: - the science, design, development, construction, languages, management and applications of modern computing. - communication between persons interested in computing. - cooperation with other professional groups See official bylaws at http://www.sfbayacm.org/?at …

Hi Everyone! As you know Professor Daphne Koller (Stanford University) has been kind enough to share & teach very interesting topic - Probabilistic Graphical Model (webpage https://www.coursera.org/pgm). Being actively interested in this area, I am forming this group for the engineering students/graduates/working professionals to discuss about the topics being taught, discuss assignments, form hangout groups(google+) and ask questions.

For people interested in Apache Mahout machine learning libraries, or interested in learning about machine learning in general.