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This group is for everyone interested in real-time access to big data. We welcome developers, data scientists, analysts - everyone trying to figure out how to get access - and analysis - quickly; data in HDFS, S3, NoSQL databases, etc. Why did I form this group? There are a number of interesting Open Source and proprietary solutions trying to provide real-time access to Big Data and a high density of folks here in the Bay Area working on solutions. Industry analysts are saying "this is the year …

This group is an interactive, developer-friendly introduction to analytics, machine learning and data science topics. The focus will be on learning practical techniques to working with data. We will be doing R, Python, Ruby and a little bit of Java/C++. We will also focus on real-life problems in various domains such as healthcare, energy etc. and apply data to solve those problems. Oh, btw - G.O.D.s => Geeking-out on data science. :-) See you there.

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 …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other ico …

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.

This meetup is about sharing knowledge & learning the latest developments about statistics, machine learning, math, analytics, parallel algorithms, distributed systems.

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 …

This is a group for anyone interested in Apache Drill, an open source system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets.

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 …

Apache Ambari is a 100% open source enterprise software platform for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters. This user group is to discuss features and share knowledge regarding Apache Ambari.

Hazelcast is an open source in-memory data grid that helps you to build Highly Scalable and Available applications. Join this group if you want to learn more about Hazelcast, in-memory data grids and some similar technologies. Let's share our ideas, work on case studies and dive into the technology.

Each month we will have a startup engineer or entrepreneur share technology tips, and tricks that helped build their business. This is a highly technical group and in the past we covered topics such as "Scaling PInterest", "Introduction to Data Science", "Making Mobile Development Less Painfull", .... Come join the group and learn about how we build technology startups here in Silicon Valley.

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 …

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 …

Open to all interested in PyData, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, and all the cool new Python data tools.

About us ... We are a group of people who are interested to develop BlackBerry Apps, or to port their existing Android, IOS, or other Apps to BlackBerry...... Come and join us for some BlackBerry Jam fun!!! Let's share ideas and talents, learn, play and succeed together!!! Helpful Links: *** Porting Your Existing Apps to BlackBerry 10 *** Getting Ready For Jamming C/C++ Native SDK HTML5 Webworks Action Script Adobe AIR Java Android Run Time BlackBerry Java App Generator BlackBerry Device Si …

Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. You will hear use cases, customer successes and thought leadership discussions on emerging applications and use cases - and the supporting platforms and technologies that enable them. Collaborate with peers working to solve truly complex, technical issues while betting their business on an infrastructure with 100% uptime. Find Us: http://www.aerospike.com Follow Us: http …

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.

CommCamp is an ad-hoc gathering of passionate folks who want to share, interact and spread the love around the topic of communication design and delivery. This includes everything from storytelling, handling Q&A, elevator pitches, visualizing data -- to revieiwng the latest presentation tools and techniques. Bring your questions, ideas, or even slides to share at our events! Founded in 2009 as PresentationCamp and offered in an unconference (open space) style around the world, we realized that t …