This is an IBM sponsored Big Data meetup group.  Geared towards developers, data scientists and all Big Data enthusiasts, our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data platform. Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology.  It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills.  We provide a cloud environment …

Open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Hector, NoSQL, Pig, and high scalability. Let's get together and share what we know.

Learn, share, and investigate new breed data analytics Ask yourself ? - How big of data have I heard, seen, and worked with? - How does google, amazon, yahoo deal with data? - Do current commercial products work in large scale scenarios? - How can I stay ahead as enterprises use the new solutions? Who should be interested ? - Business Data Analysts - Data warehousing technologists - Passion to learn new technologies

This meet up group is open to all Big Data enthusiasts.  We are providing a platform to learn about new technologies, as well as to share ideas amongst your peers.

Professional group of distributed computing practitioners.

Opani is a community of data people working together to understand humanity's rising river of information.

Technical discussions about the convergence of Big Data and traditional data warehousing. We'll meet to exchange ideas, products, projects and solutions that are creating new methods and techniques to analyze data.

This MeetUp is a group for MicroStrategy users, professionals or those with an interest in learning more about MicroStrategy in the Greater NYC Area. Activities will include speakers, social events, demos and networking. We also have intro classes and webinars.

NYC 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, …

Meetup group for experienced developers looking to explore the NoSQL/NewSQL/Big Data landscape.

HBase is a distributed, fault-tolerant, column-oriented database and HBase NYC meetup is for all those who are using and/or want to learn more about HBase.

What is NoSQL? The definition of NoSQL varies greatly, but the NoSQL NYC Meetup will be a place to discuss any alternative databases: from large distributed key-values hashtables to document-stores.  Newbies welcome! You can also keep track of various NoSQL events in the city by following the group on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/nosqlnyc  Please let me know if I missed something. The goal of the meetup is to build a local community, so please do not join the meetup for the sole intention o …

This group is aimed at technology professionals who are interested in the problem of embedding Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning approaches directly into operational applications and processes that drive the business. The group is programming language and platform agnostic as we plan to open the floor to presentations by technologists working in Java, .NET, R, C++ and whatever other language makes sense. Language choice notwithstanding, the group is interested in use cases, best practi …

With the rapid growth of AWS (infrastructure web services platform in the cloud) among individual developers, start-ups, and companies across the U.S. and abroad, developers PLEASE JOIN a growing, dynamic community, and interact with other developers to answer questions, share ideas, and learn about new services and best practices. Also Join our active forums @ http://www.meetup.com/AWSnewyork/messages/boards/

The Analytics Professionals group was created to provide a forum for those in the New York metro area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using the ParAccel Analytics Database platform and similar technologies for analytics.

The purpose of this group is to bring together the small-but-growing community of Go Language users. The meetups will include talks by invited guests, networking events and possibly other sessions. The initial goal of the meetup is to let engineers share how they have managed to make incremental transition to Go in pre-existing and production systems.

Live in MD or DC area and want to get together and talk about NoSQL technologies like Hadoop, HBase, CouchDB, Cassandra? Whether you're an expert or an interested novice, everyone is welcome to come and discuss NoSQL technologies, get and trade tips, network, and learn more from each other.

A group devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the NYC Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data analytical solutions.

PhillyDB members are database developers, data architects, DBAs, analysts - and application developers, too. We meet to learn about enterprise systems (Oracle, SQLServer, DB2), open source systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), big data management systems (Hadoop, MPP, NoSQL, NewSQL, and real-time SQL databases), and analytics tools. Come learn with us.  And if you're doing or building something interesting, come tell us about it!

Big Data ! Data Science ! Predictive Analytics ! Machine Learning ! ... these are all great buzzwords but to make a system actually work and that has an impact is a non-trivial task. To go from concept to system deployment many technical, project and program elements need to come together. The goal of this meet-up group is to provide a forum for systems architects/engineers, software architects, software engineers, analysts, informaticists, data scientists, program managers and end customers a f …

If you believe that there is scope for financial institutions to expand their use of Opensource applications (Or if you don’t but would like to join the debate anyway) then please join us for a monthly meetup. Where possible I will arrange guest speakers. My sense is that there is scope to develop more enterprise level open source applications in finance. Open Gamma has already done this successfully with its risk management application. The Lodestone Foundation, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, has …

This group is for business and IT professionals looking for news, in-depth case studies, expert insight, best practices, and product analyses to plan and implement their data analytics and management strategies. We provide decision makers perspective on how they can apply big data concepts and technologies to their business needs. With original insight, ideas, and advice, we also explain the potential risks and benefits of introducing new data technology into existing data systems.

This is a group for anyone interested in big data technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analysis, data visualization, etc. All skills levels are welcome. I have started this group for big data professionals to network and learn the latest in the big data technology. Looking forward to having lively discussions about the cutting edge big data technology and its impact on the business world.