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 …

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Reading Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Reading to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.