Welcome to our Hertfordshire based PASS Chapter. We are a community of people who work with Microsoft SQL Server. The Hertfordshire User Group for SQL Server (HUGSS) is dedicated to learn, share, and build knowledge sharing community for SQL Server and the ecosystem of technologies that touch it. Every two months, we will be holding free learning presentations on a range of topics, including Business Intelligence, SQL Server Architecture, Data Visualisation and Database Administration.

We are a brand new group set up in June 2013. More information about our first event is coming up soon so please join us and keep an eye on your inbox for the invitation! About London GlassFish User Group (GUG) is here to distribute GlassFish related knowledge and provide a meeting place for GlassFish users to get information, share resources and solutions, increase networking, expand GlassFish Technology expertise, and above all - drink beer, eat pizza and have fun. As a user group we encourage …

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 …

If you're interested in the new breed of databases -- Riak, MongoDB, Cassandra and others -- and you want to learn more about them and chat with others about NoSQL and big data, come and join our group. We'll have regular meet-ups in and near to Birmingham, with the best speakers as well as food and drink provided by a sponsor.

During Lucene Eurocon 2011 in Barcelona, a number of us from different search companies met and discussed data conditioning and pipelining (ways to obtain, transform and process data before it is indexed by a search engine). We've started this group to bring these people together on-line and we hope to have physical meetups occasionally as well, at other search-related events. We're not technology or license specific - if you're building or using pipelines or similar processes come and join us, …

Monthly meet-ups for anyone interested in digital rights: from copyright, freedom of expression, censorship, parody, privacy, open data... See the Open Rights Group website for the kind of issues we discuss. All welcome!

R is an open source data analysis, data visualization and statistical programming language. Use of R is rising exponentially in the business and academic arenas and it is used by companies such as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America and Shell. SheffieldR is an opportunity for anyone with an interest in R to meet up, listen to a couple of interesting presentations on R implementations and then network over a drink. The events are free and anyone, at whatever level of R skill, is welcome to att …

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 a leading software package 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. and Revolution Analytics.

Satellite Applications Catapult will be a base for space related hackathons at the newly refurbished HQ in Didcot. We will be hosting events lasting 2 days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming: This 48-hour hackathon is to build new web and mobile services revolving around satellite data. Solutions can range from predicting natural disasters, Climate change, anything you can think of to tantalize the judges, using a wealth of satellite data. Cat …

MANCHESTER R R is an open source data analysis and statistical programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is a free implementation of the “S” language that is currently available on most platforms. It can be obtained from the R project website and is maintained and developed by a community of users. Manchester R is an opportunity for people to learn and to share information about R. The sessions consists of 3-4 short presentations followed by a networking sess …

This is a group for anyone interested in scale-out storage and IT infrastructure in general. Designed to pull together like minded people from all types of organisations to share their experiences, pain and successes in building out their IT infrastructures in times of ever changing technology choices and supporting the rapid increase in the amount of data being produced. Please use this as a forum to discuss issues online, but there will also be the opportunity to meet up regularly. Watch this …

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 Manchester Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Manchester to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

This group is a place for developers in the Thames Valley to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions.

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.

We hold regular meetups and micro-conferences, inviting a host of prominent professionals in the world of web to share their experiences and offer guidance to those new to the arena. With a philosophy of simplicity and conciseness, nearly all talks are shorter than 20 minutes and refreshingly “data-light”. What do we talk about? Subjects vary depending on the speaker, but each talk is focused towards learners and encourages interactivity. We attempt to cover all areas of importance to those new …

Welcome to Balanced View Bristol... Balanced View is a worldwide grassroots movement of people choosing to empower their gifts, skills and talents and see how they can use them powerfully for the benefit of all. By participating in the standardised education and innovative support system of Balanced View, called the Four Mainstays, we learn to recognise and rely on our always-on open intelligence, aligning us with reality and our natural power to benefit all. Bristol is the home of a thriving co …

MongoDB User Group for all levels! We'll aim to meet once a month and discuss implementing MongoDB - mainly from the developer's perspective. MongoDB is a NoSQL database - more info on MongoDB is available at http://www.mongodb.org/ We'll also be following the MongoDB online training run by 10gen. Venue for meetups is yet to be decided, but it will be in Cambridge. We'll wait to see how much interest there is before booking the Corn Exchange! We're also on the look out for sponsors and/or hosts, …

We're a community lead user group in the heard of Manchester, helping, aiding and teaching the leading NoSQL Database, MongoDB!