SF Data Engineering hosts events where the lead engineers from pre-screened companies showcase their technical challenges. ONLY ENGINEERS can attend. If you are not an engineer, please be aware that you may be removed from the group. Software engineers are presently faced with an ever-increasing amount of data as well as a plethora of options for open-source technologies to use to manage it. And the architectures required to process the data into useful information using machine learning, NLP, …

The SF Data Mining meetup focuses on all aspects of the data pipeline--from data acquisition and big data storage to machine learning and data visualization. Current Goals Host speakers Host educational workshops Host volunteer events Highlight existing events around the bay area and organize transportation, etc Spread awareness of rising data mining technologies Who is this meetup for? Data engineers, analysts, scientists, and other practitioners Data visualization developers and designers J …

Calling all newcomers transitioning to the field of Data Mining and Visualization in South Bay. Lets get-together to code, discuss projects, and materials that can help get jump started in this new and very exciting area. Looking forward to exploring and learning more about this field with you.

Big Data is in vogue, its the new buzzword. But what is Big Data? Do we know all the pieces of the Big Data puzzle? This group will cover all the five pieces of Big Data - Infrastructure, Data Storage/Management, Data Sciences, Visualization and one missing piece. We will cover one piece of the puzzle in every meetup. The idea is to have a holistic view of Big Data.

The Big Big Crazy World of Big Data... The mission of this group is to bring leaders in our community, who are interested in the powers of Big Data together - - Providers, Implementers, Trainers, Analysts, and Key Business Decision Makers (and Techies are invited too) This will be a group effort to learn from each other 'Best Practices' and 'Pitfalls' around Big Data; and help us Navigate the Choices and Confusions

Big Data Silicon Valley was created to help demystify big data, explore interesting use cases in different industries, go over some opportunities in the market and share tools that are available for your big data projects. We'll also go over what are some opportunities that startups can tap into in this industry. Why should you care: Big data will drive $120 billion of IT spending in 2013, according to Gartner. 93% of businesses feel like they're losing money by not being able to use the infor …

Are you interested in open access to data so it can be used to build new services and reveal new insights? In that case join our next Open Data Bay Area event to find others interested in and working with these topics! We are a group of thinkers, planners and doers meeting once a month to hear talks, get updated, spread news and meet other open data enthusiasts. In this forum you will meet lots of key people with a passion for open data, including open data advocates, data owners, and specialist …

This is a group to connect Big Data start ups and entrepreneurs in San Francisco for networking, pitches, workshops, demonstations and much more. This group is ideal for: * Big Data Startup Companies * Entrepreneurs * Developers and Programmers * Investors * Big Data Recruiters * Big Data Service Providers

This is a group for discussing Big Data Applications, Analytics, Algorithms and Architectures . This group is intended towards big data evangalists, technologists, architects, Hadoop administrators, data mining experts, data scientists, cloud experts, NoSQL , developers, consultants, and experts. The meetup will have product demonstrations, use case discussions, presentations of architectures and implementations. The locations would be in South Bay Area ( Silicon Valley)

There are demands for good mathematicians to write algorithms that can churn through billions or trillions of data points and show where patterns emerge. The Economist data issue raised this issue as follows: "During the recent financial crisis it became clear that banks and rating agencies had been relying on models which, although they required a vast amount of information to be fed in, failed to reflect financial risk in the real world. This was the first crisis to be sparked by big data—and …

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 become …

A San Francisco and Silicon Valley based group focused Oracle EPM, BI and Big Data Technologies including Endeca Information Discovery, Hyperion Essbase, Oracle BI and Analytics Applications, Big Data  including NoSQL, Hadoop, Cloudera, R, Oracle Data Integrator, Big Data Appliance, Exalytics, Master Data Management, DRM, Hyperion Planning, and Hyperion Financial Management, and an ever expanding suite of Oracle related technologies. Please join us as we share user experiences, problems and solu …

While data volume grows, our ability to drive the value out of it depends on the depth of knowledge we carry on the domain/vertical we are seeking insights into. This group primarily focuses on using Big Data for business changes and transformation and ensuring that the transformation happens in a secure manner with exploding device counts.

This group is an interactive, developer-friendly introduction to analytics, machine learning and data science topics. The focus will be on learning practical techniques to working with data. We will be doing R, Python, Ruby and a little bit of Java/C++. We will also focus on real-life problems in various domains such as healthcare, energy etc. and apply data to solve those problems. Oh, btw - G.O.D.s => Geeking-out on data science. :-) See you there.

Data Science! It's all the talk these days! Our team, 0xdata, wants you to join the discussion about our new fast analytics engine, H2O. H20 is ran on top of HDFS. H20 makes it possible to learn bigdata at scale. H20 guarantees one thing: move code, not data. move fast. Join our group! Join the discussion!

Are you a developer interested in learning how to summarize, visualize and interpret your data? Are you building a website or application that needs to be smarter in making predictions, segmenting users, or generating recommendations? Come by and meet with other developers and learn about best practices, hear about what’s new in building data-driven applications, and drink some free beer.

We're a group of folk broadly interested in the application of data science and sustainability, discussing questions like: what data feeds can improve supply chain sustainability? what algorithms should be applied to water conservation? what challenges of scale lie behind automated energy efficiency? what can be learnt from quantitative finance, search, and other related fields? We meet on the first Thursday of every month at EcoFactor's offices in Redwood City.

Today is the age of Scalable Systems and Big Data. Providing a meetup where we can discuss innovation, solutions and have pub nights for drinking and socializing.

New tools and technologies appear daily for ingesting, munging, storing, processing, analyzing, visualizing data. These things don't often fit cleanly into existing groups. Wherever possible, we invite the authors and creators to join us to share with us their work -- be it in the form of a presentation, workshop, or happy hour. Events are held throughout the SF Bay Area. This is the sister group of the Data SF Bay LinkedIn group.

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 attendees.  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") We also have a on-going hackathon series aimed at developers who want to learn hadoop.  These are hands on sessions where attendees learn and develop a new concept.

Join us to learn about Oracle Big Data/NoSQL and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other professionals.

The Programmatic Advertising & Data group is for Savvy Marketers and Technologists to discuss the latest trends in advertising technologies, advertising tools and more. Though there is a focus on programmatic advertising there are other areas covered like mediation, aggregators, programmatic mobile, search analytics

Business Intelligence (BI) is the exciting new discipline of skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making in every organization. The Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for discussing advances in BI. Talks range from industry and process trends, through the software tools that enable BI to best practices and issues that arise from their application. Our mission is to create a community of Business Intelligence professionals …

Interested in Graph Databases, Graph Theory, Graph Algorithms, Graph mining? Join us!

Bay Area Search Engineering Monthly Meetup Monthly presentation on topics of interest to search software engineers. Query Recall & Expansion (synonyms, spelling, autocomplete, related search) Machine Learning for Ranking (decision trees) Factor development for ranking (page factors, ecommerce factors) Search metrics (DCG, NDCG, RPref, etc.) Hadoop & Data Mining for Search (bipartite graphs, session analysis).

A group to discuss all things Machine Learning! Topics may include (but are not limited to): learning theory, computer vision, natural language processing, data mining, computer audition, etc. Everyone is welcome! Other local Machine Learning groups: https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Machine_Learning

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 …

This meetup is about sharing knowledge & learning the latest developments about statistics, machine learning, math, analytics, parallel algorithms, distributed systems.