New York City has opened up hundreds of datasets through NYC OpenData. https://data.ny.gov/ The goal of the group is to use data and visualizations to tell stories about the NYC.

The New York Data Governance Users Group is a non-profit volunteer run organization with the objective of create a forum and exchange of information related to Data Governance.

Data 2.0 NYC is the East Coast arm of Data 2.0 conferences including DataWeek Conference & Festival (dataweek.com) and the Data 2.0 Summit (data2summit.com). We host events and meetup groups in the NYC area as well. Data 2.0 focuses in Big Data, Social Data, and Open Data as they relate to making data more accessible online. We connect data entrepreneurs, investors, professionals, and media.

This meetup is in the process of being rebooted. As New Yorkers, we want the city to stay on the cutting edge of transportation. As developers, technologists, and advocates, we are exploring the intersection of transportation, data, and innovation. Within this meetup, we are forging a positive, mutually beneficial relationship between data providers and the New York technology community.

Data is all the rage these days, often presented as the next big trend in the evolution of the Web, and the next big opportunity for internet entrepreneurs. This Meetup focuses on the business aspects of the data revolution: startup opportunities, new products, business models, funding trends, emerging players, and ways for existing startups to leverage their data. Technical aspects will also occasionally be discussed, but attendees do not need to have a technical background. While hosted at Blo …

betaNYC is building a better tomorrow for all. (This group is formerly known as "Open NY Forum.") Since 2009, we have been NYC's civic technology and open government vanguard. By leading elected officials to engage with NYC’s technology community, passing transformative open government legislation, supporting NYC's civic technology startups, and building apps to protect democracy and serve our fellow brothers and sisters, we have become America’s largest civic technology and open government com …

This Meetup is a forum for public participation in shaping New York City government's digital roadmap, focusing on 5 pillars of Access, Education, Open Government, Engagement and Industry.

Meet with other users of the open-source programming language. Previous this meetup focused only on the R language, but now are focused on all open-source data analysis tools; oincluding but not limited to, Python, WEKA, Sage, etc. Learn and share tricks and techniques from and with other users. Beginners welcome.

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

The hype surrounding Big Data and Data Science is at a fever pitch with promises to solve the world's business and social problems, large and small. How accurate or misleading is this message? How is it helping or damaging people, and which people? What opportunities exist for data nerds and entrepreneurs that examine the larger issues with a skeptical view? This Meetup focuses on mathematical, ethical, and business aspects of data from a skeptical perspective. Guest speakers will discuss the mi …

This group is for data hackers, scientists, analysts, statisticians, engineers, enthusiasts, gurus, ninjas, wizards - whatever your preferred label, if you possess hands-on experience with data and use it to solve problems, then this group is for you. We'll cover a wide range of data topics, mostly those relevant to the tech industry: prediction, visualization, data cleaning, real-time reporting, user tracking, split testing, etc... The group is language agnostic but will emphasize ubiquitous/op …

ABOUT The New Marketplaces, Science & Tech For A Better Internet meetup invites scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, software coders, designers, activists and financiers to discuss and explore how new online marketplaces, business models & infrastructures can create more interaction and innovation on the Web. MEETUPS We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month at some of NYC's most cutting-edge tech company offices. MEMBERS Where does the network end and where does the marketplace begin? Wh …

This is a group for political hacks and technology hackers. New York Civic Tech Meetup will focus on civic, social good, political tech and everything in between. The purpose of this group will be to showcase startups in the these three spaces, engage the political community in New York and the surrounding areas, and work towards making an impact in tech, politics, and government. NYCTM is not just about open data, big data, or government transparency; it will engage the private sector -- tech s …

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.

Mappers and OpenStreetMap users, developers and enthusiasts in the New York Metropolitan area.

This is the official meetup group for the New York Energy Week organizing committee.  Want to help shape the future of New York's first ever, annual cross-sector event series for, and by, the energy industry?  Join us! New York Energy Week is the first comprehensive collaboration to unite unite the diverse sectors of the industry and fuel New York’s rapidly developing energy economy.  Taking place June 24-28, 2013 in its first year, the week-long industry event series will focus on the city and …

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database and many of the key committers are based right here in New York City. So 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 third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a p …

GeoNYC brings together enthusiasts, users, and developers interested in the technical and social aspects of maps.  Whether you're that desktop aficionado, rand mcnally addict, mobile application savant, open source evangelist, or spatial student of tomorrow -- if you ever wonder at the power of maps to visualize and transform our worlds -- this meetup is for you. An open, friendly, educational salon of geospatial ideas and projects. Events are held within a social environment focused on a handfu …

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The NYC Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across NYC to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation Apache Cassandra.

NYBI is a network of resources for Data professionals. Structured as a monthly Open Forum, the group focuses on Technology, Process and Best Practices topics rooted in Business Intelligence. Our events bring together vendors, entrepreneurs, and professionals for casual and informal technical deep-dives, discussion, and business networking. Events are classified within the following series: * Understanding the BI Stack * Best Practices * Vendor Solutions * Round Table Goals of the NYBI Meetup …

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.

OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution.  It is used by corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community. Join us in discussions from users perspectives on OpenStack and cloud computing in general.  Once a …

Our purpose is to promote diversity within the NY tech community by supporting the next wave of Latino technology leaders. We strive to create a community for Latinos working and interested in technology. We will share what excites us, explore challenges, opportunities, and our innovations. We see technology innovation not as a market segment, but a universal catalyst to improve and enrich our communities. Our themes include entrepreneurship, the Internet, open government, social entrepreneurshi …

What is crisismapping? Crisismappers are online teams of people who gather and provide data online to people responding to and people caught up in disasters. Crisismapping has been around for a while, but for most people it started with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where all the government and NGO information needed to respond to the earthquake was lost in the earthquake. We created online maps from satelllite images, put SMS and media reports onto an Ushahidi map, got documents into Sahana, …

Gathering of people interested in search, discovery, analytics, and the related fields -- information gathering, extraction, and retrieval, natural language processing, text analytics, data mining, sentiment detection, named entity recognition, visualizations. Talks about Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, Lucene, and other search tools.

NY Graph is a place for people to learn about and discuss graph structures, graph theory, graph databases and related topics. We host technical presentations and lectures, product demos, lightning talks, seminars, town hall-style open forums and hands-on tutorials, in addition to less-structured monthly gatherings. Why graphs? Why now? Graph structures and methods are being used everywhere. As the size of datasets being generated, processed, and presented continues to grow, the relative strengt …

Meet other locals with an interest in maps, GIS and Open Source mapping tools. OpenStreetMap is the "Wiki-style map of everything" and is committed to creating map tools and map data that can be used in creative and unexpected ways. Meet with other OpenStreetMappers to share experiences, surveying tips, mapping strategy and software help.

This group is open to all folks interested Python/PyData, and related tools like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and IPython. Send us a note if you'd like to host or present at one of our meetups.