There are demands for good mathematicians to write algorithms that can churn through billions or trillions of data points and show where patterns emerge. The Economist data issue raised this issue as follows: "During the recent financial crisis it became clear that banks and rating agencies had been relying on models which, although they required a vast amount of information to be fed in, failed to reflect financial risk in the real world. This was the first crisis to be sparked by big data—and …

This is a group of users and others interested in using and learning more about open source business intelligence tools grouped together under the name of Pentaho. These include Weka (machine learning), Kettle for loading data into a database (ETL), Montrian (OLAP), and other java-based applications for reporting.

About Hacking 4 Health The launch of Community Health Data Initiative by HHS and Institute of Medicine is exciting news for programmers interested in the development of health applications. Under this initiative, HHS and other government agencies are releasing vast amounts of health data developers can use to create applications that will help individuals and communities. HealthTap, in collaboration with Health 2.0, is thrilled to announce a Hackathon where developers can learn more about this …

Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store. Cassandra brings together the distributed systems technologies from Dynamo  and the data model from Google's BigTable   Join us to learn about Cassandra (NoSQL), including use cases, new features, and exciting networking with other professionals.   http://cassandra.apache.org/

The group is dedicated to developers and users of cloud storage and those dedicated to interoperability and open source. This includes implementers of cloud storage APIs, Big Data Analytics and even Archive and Preservation in the Cloud.

Thanks for dropping by! Our group focuses on enterprise datacenter strategies including but not limited to: Cloud Computing, (Reinforcing the Open, Capable, and Affordable IT Infrastrcuture), Virtualization, Datacenter Management, Best Practices (Hardware and Software), and Innovative IT Ideas for the future!

Bay Area Search Engineering Monthly Meetup Monthly presentation on topics of interest to search software engineers. Query Recall & Expansion (synonyms, spelling, autocomplete, related search) Machine Learning for Ranking (decision trees) Factor development for ranking (page factors, ecommerce factors) Search metrics (DCG, NDCG, RPref, etc.) Hadoop & Data Mining for Search (bipartite graphs, session analysis).

Bay Area Storm Users is a group for developers and companies using Twitter's Storm real-time data processing and DRPC framework. We get together to discuss best practices, usage patterns, and to exchange ideas. 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. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of …

This mastermind group is open to B2B marketers and salespeople of all experience levels. Our goal is to have an open forum to: Get advice about marketing / sales challenges Share best practices Network Topics include: Salesforce CRM Microsoft Dynamics Sales strategy Cold calling & leaving voicemails Marketing strategy Business to business email Social media Mobile marketing Copywriting Infusionsoft CRM   We will meet most first Thursday's of the month.  There will always be f …

This is a meetup group for users and contributors to Apache Flume (incubating). Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. Its main goal is to deliver data from applications to Apache Hadoop's HDFS. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. The system is cent …

Meet others interested in all aspects of Web, Digital, Social Game and Social Media Analytics. Gather to discuss key trends and updates around advanced analytics,as it applies to marketing and tech offerings, upcoming web, search, BI, sentiment analysis, reporting and predictive analytics software (Web Trends, Google Analytics, Net Insight, Omniture, etc.) Open to anyone interested in learning more and sharing thoughts about digital analytics, SEM, SEO and social media as it relates to web desig …

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. 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. We typically meet on the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a presentation on Mongo.

We like scaling big systems, do you? ArchCamp is a meetup for engineers, by engineers. The goal is to talk about building systems (often at high scale) without having to listen to any sales pitches.   Event format: 20 min - mingle & discussion about the last event 40 min - lightning talks 5 minutes. (laptop setup is on your time, not ours) 60 min - open discussion about the topic du jour We have a meetup every 4 to 6 weeks   The cornerstone event for this meetup is the ArchCamp unconfer …

Open to the few, the proud, the pale, the clued folks that keep the sites running. If you fall into one of these groups this is the perfect forum for you. 1. Operations - you spend too much time in the Colo 2. Network - you keep the bits flowing to the cage 3. Systems - you keep all the 1U heaters running in the cage 4. Architect - you give the above 3 heartburn ;) 5. Other - you contribute to the success of the application in some way (DEVs are welcome) Our events provide you with a forum to le …

Hive is a scalable data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop. It provides tools to enable easy data ETL, a mechanism to put structures on the data, and the capability to querying and analysis of large data sets stored in Hadoop files. Hive defines a simple SQL-like query language, called HiveQL, that enables users familiar with SQL to query the data. At the same time, this language also allows programmers who are familiar with the MapReduce fromwork to be able to plug in their custom …

Quarterly meetings of Oozie contributors. Users are very welcome to attend, however if space ever becomes an issue we reserve the right to prioritize accordingly.