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 …

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.

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. 

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.

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 strength …

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 Sa …

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.

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Gathering of people interested in search and discovery and the related fields -- information gathering, extraction, and retrieval, natural language processing, text analytics, data mining, sentiment detection, named entity recognition... Some example technologies that would be nice to cover are Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, UIMA, GATE, OpenNLP, Hadoop, HBase, Katta, etc. The plan is to have more or less regular meetups and share experiences involving any of the target topics. Initial meetu …

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 …

As New Yorkers, we want the city to stay on the cutting edge of public transportation. As developers, want to help forge a positive, mutually beneficial relationship between the MTA and the wider New York development community. Please join us for respectful and constructive discussion about how we can best bring this about. Learn more at http://nytransitdata.org

… Which role play software tools and big data? RoR versus Python? How can you create eyeballs and prevent users from gaming the system? Are you interested in the latest cutting-edge stuff from MIT Media Lab and Santa Fe Institute? How and where and why should you raise funding? In what marketplaces & tech should I invest? What might Peter Thiel and Fred Wilson think about this and that? What are the business models and technologies of firms such as kickstarter, innocentive, pivotal tracker, quid, …

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 Me …

This meetup group is organized to explore new cloud technologies, network with peers of cloud computing, and be open to experience with new & emerging technologies. We will have multiple speakers and hands on workshops during our meetups. If you want to share your idea, your innovation, or if you want to learn other's ideas and innovations, or simply just build up your network, you are most welcome to this group. We plan to have monthly collaborative sessions, based on one of the Universities, i …