Pentaho BI provides a full spectrum of data integration and business intelligence (BI) capabilities including data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL), interactive reporting, ad hoc analysis, rich visualizations, data mining, and predictive analysis. With a BI platform that has made it the world's most popular open source BI, Pentaho also provides broad enterprise data integration services for Big Data analytics and reporting. At our monthly user group we'll exchange knowledge and expe …

Inspired by DataKind's DataDive 2012. We will be offering space and opportunities for ongoing collaboration of non-profit data partners and data enthusiasts to explore interesting data sets for the greater good.

A group for those in Chicago who develop or implement enterprise search software. We'll discuss new search solutions, specific products (Autonomy, Endeca, Fast, Dieselpoint, Lucene, Solr, Google Search Appliance), ideas, and maybe a bit of "big data" technology like Hadoop as it relates to search. Folks into text analytics also welcome. Great for developers or academics who work in information retrieval.

This group will consist of BI professionals, data consumers, data evangelists, Sharepoint developers, data & enterprise architects, and business stakeholders  looking to leverage corporate assets through the information lifecycle and capitalize on advancing technologies. During our meetings we will discuss the following topics: Data strategies and roadmaps ERP and data rationalization Master Data Management Data Governance Operational assessments  Enterprise Data Management  Design Functional & …

Welcome! This group meets weekly and is open to graduates of the inital 4 week Clear Your Clutter series of classes taught by Martha Hayden. (www.marthahayden.net) Fee is $15. A new meetup for beginners taught by Martha will be coming later in the year!!   When things are not used, needed or loved, they clutter up a space. We can become distracted by mess or depressed by energetic heaviness when trying to function around piles of papers, in rooms overstuffed with furniture or surrounded by close …

Welcome to the Chicago Jaspersoft User Group. The goal of this group is to get together to learn, share, and collaborate with others that are working with or want to work with the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, including: * JasperReports * iReport and Jaspersoft Studio * JasperReports Server * Jaspersoft ETL The members of the group will help to decide on topics for future meetings, present their experiences, and learn from each other.

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Meet others interested in all aspects of Web, Game and Social Media Analytics. Gather to discuss key and upcoming web, search, BI, sentiment analysis, reporting, gaming and predictive analytics software (Web Trends, Google Analytics, Net Insight, Omniture, Radian6, ViralHeat, Flurry, etc.) Open to anyone interested in learning more and sharing thoughts about web analytics, SEM, SEO, gameanalytics and social media as it relates to product design, customer behavior trends and data-driven marketing …