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.

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!

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 …

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 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.

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.