Data Science London, the #datascience community We are a non-profit professional organisation dedicated to the free, open, dissemination of data science. We are a community of data scientists that meets regularly 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. Follow us on twitter @ds_ldn Read our blog www.datasciencelondon.com We'll have …

Big Data presentations, discussions, hack events and taught sessions in Brighton. Open to everyone across interests, specialisms and skill levels - join if you're intrested in learning more about Big Data or sharing your knowledge with the community. Some topics we might cover What is Big Data? What is big data exactly? What new things does big data make possible, and who are they useful to? Who's buying it - what's the business case? Data Science What is a data scientist? Stats 101 for …

Calling all data do-gooders: DataKind UK is a meetup for the United Kingdom chapter of DataKind, a community of data scientists and non-profits working together to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity. DataKind encourages local meetups to share ideas, collaborate across communities, discuss new tools and practices, and help bring about a better world through data for social causes. Come hang out with other conscientious dataists and tech-savvy social innovators …

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!

Welcome to the Spring of Code group! The project is based on the ethics of open data, free software, open source and creative commons. So join up, and shout out what's missing from the online tools already out there and how we can make them work better. What happens in a meeting? People meet people, projects get put on socially useful tracks, focus. What happens between meetings? People buddy up on projects, hack, design, get creative and update on site their progress. Where do I ask for help o …

Welcome to Big Data London - Europe's biggest Big Data community. Big Data London brings together people working on Big Data projects. If you're using Hadoop, Apache Cassandra or any other NoSQL related technology, if you're involved with web apps, enterprise apps, data analytics, financial apps or storage at massive scale, or simply want to learn more about the space, then you'll find something interesting here. So come and join us.

This is a group for entrepreneurs and professionals interested in real time metrics, lean analytics and data driven decision making. This is an open group although Geckoboard clients will have priority access to each event. The venue and dates will be communicated in advance via Meetup.com and Geckoboard mailing list. http://www.datadrivenlondon.com/ About Geckoboard Geckoboard is a realtime status board for businesses. It collects your business information from many online services, summarises …

This is a networking group for those interested in Big Data & the Cloud. It is open to all Big Data and Cloud specialists in London who like to share their experiences and ideas. Organised by eSynergy Solutions, an IT recruitment company based in the heart of the City. In early 2012 we set up a Cloud and Big Data division  specialising in recruiting for contract and permanent Big Data technical positions. We work with Big Data Vendors, Specialised Consulting companies and end user clients to fi …

The MarkLogic User Group London is for users and/or fans of MarkLogic and those who are interested in learning more about MarkLogic, XML, XQuery and related technologies. MUGL meetups are free and open to anyone that wishes to attend. There is no formal membership for the group, but you can join our mailing list at http://mugl.org. Meetings are held monthly.

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

Hi Big Data enthusiasts my names Nathan, I'm a regular attendee at many of the Big Data meet ups decided this rapidly expanding space is in need of some hiring solutions to help both employers and employees find suitable matches in confidence. So please, if you’re on here or your employee is it doesn’t mean you/they are looking but you may be contacted by someone who is! I hope people will just use it just like any other job board but it’s free and with the benefit of it being our market specif …

Open to all interested in PyData, NumPy, SciPy, etc

We see a lot of people who have totally different data needs or people who are interested in the different NoSQL and Big Data solutions.  We also meet people who are more interested the networking side rather than formal talks that the various usergroups do.  So we thought an open pub social would help the noSQL and Big Data community grow.  We hope that a pub social would help educate and cross pollinate ideas and have the bonus of being just plain good fun. This is our monthly informal social …

We're talking urban infrastructure, smart grid, open hardware, quantified self, open data, environmental monitoring and more.  Anything that puts a networked computer where none has gone before.

Hacks/Hackers is a global movement where hacks (journalists) and hackers (developers) meet for talks, demos, hackathons and socials. It started in San Francisco and New York in 2009 and there are now 30 meet-up groups across five continents (see the Hacks/Hackers site). The goal of Hacks/Hackers is to create a "network of journalists and technologists who rethink the future of news and information". Hacks/Hackers Brighton launched in September 2011 at the Brighton Digital Festival. Organised by …

A collaborative environment for pushing the boundary of citizen science and engineering regardless of qualifications. Looking forward to hacking satellite and space in general, environment monitoring device, brain computer interface (etc, if you can think of more, ping me) together. Oh, robots too if you have/want one of those! Let's make science into tangible projects! If you have any suggestions or feedback, don't hesitate to get in touch: contactme [at] citizeninventor [dot] com

We are the Hadoop users group for the UK based in London. We meet monthly for talks and discussion on all topics related to Hadoop. Join if your intrested in learning what Hadoop is, how people are using it with their big data problems, and to meet other people with experience running and coding on Hadoop cluster around London and the UK.

Are you interested in Twitter's open source distributed realtime computation framework "Storm" & based in London? Then this meetup is for you. We get together to share use cases, experiences and tips on how to use this framework. "Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation." Project GitHub Group photo courtesy of Paul Bica

LondonR meeting 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. LondonR 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 sessi …

This meet-up group is for anyone who has an interest, works in or wants to learn more about systematic, algorithmic (i.e. automated) or quantitative trading applied to any type of financial instrument including Forex, Indices, Equities, Commodities or indeed anything else that can be traded. This community is open to researchers, recruiters, backtesters, quantitative developers and traders. By establishing this group we hope to: 1. Build a community within which to discuss and exchange of ideas, …

Enterprise search meetups are an opportunity to get together with other people doing search. Grab a drink, be challenged by one or two search-related talks, and join in the discussion. Topics can cover everything from ranking algorithms, to working with Solr and the Google Search Appliance, to designing the user interface. It's also a great way to network and stay on top of the latest developments in search. Disclaimer: This meetup is NOT about SEO. Topics covered at this meetup include: Enter …

Here at 7digital we're getting all excited about DevOps. We like to think we've always had the open and collaborative culture that is intrinsic to the DevOps approach, and lately we've been spending quite a lot of time experimenting with various ways of working, team organisation, and technical tools. The DevOps community is a lively place, and we thought it'd be great to host a regular event where we could hear a short presentation and then have a good chat about whatever comes up over some dri …

The Pentaho London Usergroup ( PLUG ) has been reformed, now with support directly from Pentaho. We meet to find out the latest goings on with the Pentaho stack, and also to discuss and learn about related technologies. Learning what other users are doing with the product also becomes a great source of inspiration for all. The Pentaho community in London is also growing rapidly (partly fuelled by the rise in Big Data) so come down and make some new contacts. Our events are deliberately kept tech …

Welcome to the London Big-O Meetup! This is London's first meetup focusing on data structures and algorithms, regardless of programming language. I started this meetup for a few reasons. There's a general lack of similar events for people interested in the theory or maths behind the tools we use every day—dictionaries, sets, lists and regular expressions are things we all take for granted, but when you reach a large enough scale, the differences between implementations begin to show. It's import …

Meet others in your local area interested in PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Database. Discuss this open source database and share the tips and tricks you've learned using it.

Meetup to discuss and get help on practical open source Business Intelligence focussed on Jaspersoft

Functional Brighton is a Brighton, UK meetup group that aims to bring together people interested in functional programming. We hope that it will complement London-based groups (eg. the London Scala User Group, Hoodlums, F#unctional Londoners, etc.), giving Londoners an excuse for a trip to the seaside and Brightonians some relief from the train. After the very well attended first meeting we've settled on the third Tuesday of the month for meetups. Unless announced otherwise, we'll meet at The Sk …

Share tools, tips, and war stories about using ElasticSearch, the open-source search engine and document store built on Apache Lucene.