Big Data Community   This is a community to bring together the four core areas of Big Data   *Data Scientists *Data Technologists *Data Business use *Data Visualization   so that individuals can share and spread their knowledge across multiple communities and disciplines.

So What is Data Science? Why do we need Data Science? And What does a Data Scientist do? In this meetup we will discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive and actionable insight, generate business value from data, and exploit business opportunities from data products. We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics,  distributed data analytics, Pig, data mining, machine learn …

  Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. The meetup format is inspired by my experience with foafcamp's and unconference style community events. Please be advised that this is a non-anonymous group. Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/lotico-list Homepage: http://www.lotico.com twitter tag: #lotico Please be advised that all public data of this meetup will be published as linked data on the world …

Hi my names Nathan, I'm a regular attendee at many of the Big Data meet ups and I’ve decided this rapidly expanding space is in need of some hiring solutions to help both employers and employees find suitable matches in confidence. So please, if you’re on here or your employee is it doesn’t mean you/they are looking but you may be contacted by someone who is! I hope people will just use it just like any other job board but it’s free and with the benefit of it being our market specific and hav …

Cloud Computing What is Cloud Computing? - Why use Clouds? - What do clouds have to offer? - How is Amazon, Microsoft , Google and Rackspace Clouds being used today? - What are the barriers to using Clouds? - How can there barriers be broken down?  We believe Cloud Computing represents a major shift in the way everyone will use computers. The jargonified benefits are huge; people will only pay for what they use, utilisation will improve by up to four times, the £ impact and the Green …

LondonR meeting R is an open source data analysis and statistical programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is a free  implementation of the “S” language that is currently available on most platforms. It can be obtained from the R project website and is maintained and developed by a community of users. LondonR is an opportunity for people to learn and to share information about R. The sessions consists of 3-4 short presentations followed by a networking sessi …

What is WorkSnug?   Connecting YouWork has changed. It’s not a place we go, it’s a thing we do. For millions, the city is our office. WorkSnug is a tool that connects mobile workers to the nearest and best places to work in the major cities of the world.Our teams, dozens around the world, have visited and reviewed hundreds of viable workspaces. We’ve reviewed WiFi, noise levels, power provision, community feel, even the quality of the coffee, in workspaces across the world. We’re now building …

Monthly meet-ups for anyone interested in digital rights: from copyright, freedom of expression, censorship, parody, privacy, open data... See the Open Rights Group website for the kind of issues we discuss. All welcome!

The MarkLogic User Group London is for users and/or fans of MarkLogic and those who are interested in learning more about MarkLogic, XML, XQuery and related technologies. MUGL meetups are free and open to anyone that wishes to attend. There is no formal membership for the group, but you can join our mailing list at http://mugl.org. Meetings are held monthly.