An Internet of Things (IoT) community group for the East Bay Area of San Francisco. Following on from IoTLondon, IoTAmsterdam and IoTNYC - we are opening a new community in the East Bay. Here's what our London Group are doing this week http://www.meetup.com/iotlondon/events/57537982/ Join for informal discussions, short presentations and socialise with fellow IoT Enthusiasts. Whether you are a hobbyist, maker or work professionally in this subject - come along for an evening out. …

Open to Bay Area folks interested in Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Data Migration, EAI, ETL, dataflow architecture, and related topics

Data Science Global is a non-profit organization dedicated bringing together the world's communities of data scientists, artists, technologists and visionaries. Our mission and group values are: Free dissemination of Data Science Free debate, discussion, and forum of ideas Building a community of Data Scientists Passionate about Data Science We are technology agnostic We are vendor independent We promote Open Source We welcome sponsors as long as they agree not to pitch their products.

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Data Warehouse Group! This is a User Group to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences building data warehouse with MySQL, Oracle database. This group open for everyone interested in networking with other data warehousing professionals (architect, modeler, analyst, etc), learning the latest technology and trend, and sharing the best practices and experiences. Data Warehouses Business Intelligence ETL Data Mining MySQ …

Hackers meet Democracy. Join us and find out more about how hackers can change the way our democracies work. It belongs to us to redefine our democracies using what we've learnt in technology.

This is where Splunk users and fans can organize user group meetups in their location. Thus far, we have user group meetups in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Columbus, OH, St. Louis, and soon in San Diego. Add yours to the list. To learn more, go to Splunk.com and download the free version.

This is a meetup for Bay Area users of Spark (www.spark-project.org), the high-speed Scala-based cluster programming framework. We'll be rotating among locations in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Berkeley. We'll also discuss other Spark-related projects, including the Hive-on-Spark port (Shark), and other new programming tools for big data. The meetup will include introductions to the various Spark features, case studies from current users, best practices for deployment and tuning, and futur …

Social information (our preferences, shares, tags, comments, collections, etc.) is the fastest growing and most valuable type of information on the web.  We have given the responsibility of stewarding that data to just a couple companies.  This is a problem. We need to rethink social.  Does it need to be an end-to-end service where the price of participation is the forfeiture of our data?  Does it need to have just a single interface, designed and served by the company that sells our data? Or ca …

Welcome! We are a group of developers, enthusiasts and users interested in the technical aspect of different geo technologies. This group is meant to be an open, friendly, technical forum where you can find answers to your geospatial questions or learn more about Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A cool geo-project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUU5xSeSaHo&NR=1 If you ever had "traditional" questions like/about: - What is the best way of storing the locations for my mobile app? - How do …

Semantic Garage is at the cutting edge of semantic and natural language processing. It's where new web companies in the semantic space can showcase live demos and where open discussion and debate about the future and philosophy of semantic technologies emerge.

HBase is a robust, scalable, distributed, column-oriented store capable of hosting billions of row of sparse, structured data. HBase is open source and part of the Hadoop project. This meeting is for users and developers. Discussions will be around the most recent release of HBase, any issues users are having, and to help plan for the next release. Definitely come if you're a current user of HBase; or if your company has plans for a huge data store and you're evaluating solutions. Also check out …

The explosion of advertiser tracking, both on mobile devices and the web, has led to new Engineering problems to combat the loss of individual privacy. To this effect, the SF Privacy Engineering group serves as a gathering point for developers who work on efforts to identify, quantify, or mediate privacy data on the web and mobile. The purpose of the group is to help the Developer community network as well as learn and discuss engineering efforts in the Privacy space. We're open to all k …

Have a cool data visualization to show? Questions to ask? Want to meet others who have a data driven mindset? Let's meetup and talk d3.js!   http://mbostock.github.com/d3/  

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. R has an estimated one million users worldwide, and its user base is growing. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its comp …

This group is about growing the OpenStreetMap community here in the Bay Area. Our events are open to everyone, from open source enthusiasts, cyclists, GIS professionals, geocachers, and beyond. Anyone and everyone who is interested in maps, map making and free map data is welcome to join our group as well as attend our events.

The purpose of this group is to gather Gephi users and share ideas, contacts, datasets and good practices about the tool. Gephi is an open-source network visualization software (http://gephi.org). It is used in various domains to visualize and analyze large networks. This group is open to everyone interested in Gephi and is lead by it's co-founder.