Investor Ron Conway estimates real-time data is 1 percent to 2 percent of Web content (2009). In three years, it will climb to 25 percent of the content on the Web. That will make the market a $5 billion opportunity. “I think this is the next multi-billion dollar market.” – Ron Conway The real-time web has the potential to disrupt and fundamentally shift the way we communicate. This is THE meet-up to attend if you are shaping or wanting to know the people, technology and thought-leaders of the …

SFAdPub is a monthly event that brings together the different parts and pieces of the San Francisco online advertising community. Whether you're on the buy side, sell side or the tech that's making the magic happen in the middle, SFAdPub is a place where you can network, build relationships and keep up with the always changing landscape of the online ad world. Each month we select a relevant topic that we focus on as a group and usually bring in a local expert (or experts) to present about it. T …

Semantic Garage is at the cutting edge of semantic and natural language processing. It's where new web companies in the semantic space can showcase live demos and where open discussion and debate about the future and philosophy of semantic technologies emerge.

Welcome! We are a group of developers, enthusiasts and users interested in the technical aspect of different geo technologies. This group is meant to be an open, friendly, technical forum where you can find answers to your geospatial questions or learn more about Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A cool geo-project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUU5xSeSaHo&NR=1 If you ever had "traditional" questions like/about: - What is the best way of storing the locations for my mobile app? - How do I …

On February 15th, we are strongly encouraging developers and charities to show up at the centrally located Microsoft Office at 835 Market Street in San Francisco, in the same building as SF State and the Bloomingdale's Store. Location: San Francisco Microsoft office - 835 Market Street, 7th Floor. Right in the heart of San Francisco's premier shopping venue - Market & Powell. We are planning aGiveCamp, which is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrato …

This group is for anyone interested in log management and data analysis. Developers, devops, IT, marketing, sales, anyone that deals with logs can benefit from this group as well as professionals that would use log data for analysis of business processes.   We will have lightning talks and guest speakers, including customers with real-world stories, industry luminaries and more. At heart, this is an informal, social gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that think logs are cool. Who Should Join t …

The SF Data Mining meetup focuses on all aspects of the data pipeline--from data acquisition and big data storage to machine learning and data visualization. Current Goals Host speakers Host educational workshops Host volunteer events Highlight existing events around the bay area and organize transportation, etc Spread awareness of rising data mining technologies Who is this meetup for? Data engineers, analysts, scientists, and other practitioners Data visualization developers and designers J …

This data visualization meetup is organized every month by Visual.ly. Our purpose is to bring together all people interested, involved and passionate about data visualization. We're starting in SF and will bring it to other cities soon! Anyone interested in data visualization should join.

A meeting of the minds for the startup founders and engineers leveraging Scala to build great startups. Scala allows for distributed data processing and type safe web development, making it possible to build a whole startup in a type safe, functional, test-driven way. Let's discuss how we do it!

This is an approximately monthly meetup for people who are into drinking beer and interested in discussing the current trends in Technical Ops & DevOps. We support web-scale production infrastructure for startups or other organizations and are concerned with stuff like network monitoring systems, cloud computing, configuration management, change management, virtualization and nerf warfare with the Engineering team.

Have a cool data visualization to show? Questions to ask? Want to meet others who have a data driven mindset? Let's meetup and talk d3.js! http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

The explosion of advertiser tracking, both on mobile devices and the web, has led to new Engineering problems to combat the loss of individual privacy. To this effect, the SF Privacy Engineering group serves as a gathering point for developers who work on efforts to identify, quantify, or mediate privacy data on the web and mobile. The purpose of the group is to help the Developer community network as well as learn and discuss engineering efforts in the Privacy space. We're open to all kind …

This meetup is dedicated to the design practices, technologies, insights and opportunities around the next frontier information access - the Internet of Things (IoT). We want to cross-pollinate ideas from engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists and entrepreneurs to create meaningful and tangible solutions that will make information access more human, ubiquitous and commercially viable.

At OkCupid Labs, we're focused on building great technology to connect and match people. The Labs Technology Meetup group is a forum for intellectually curious engineers, math geeks, designers to meet up and talk about new product prototypes and data systems that help people in their search for connections both on and offline. We're big fans of: Lightning talks Skills workshops Happy Hours Great design User-centric development Some of our Meetups will focus on: Ruby, Rails 3, Backbone, Heroku, P …

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San Francisco PyData is a group for data nerds who use Python and the available libraries: Matplotlib, NumPy, Pandas, NetworkX, etc.

Share your Elasticsearch knowledge - with an elastic definition of what 'sharing' means. We have a place (in the financial district), and a pizza + beer budget. Let's meet, talk, and take it from there!

Are you interested in open access to data so it can be used to build new services and reveal new insights? In that case join our next Open Data Bay Area event to find others interested in and working with these topics! We are a group of thinkers, planners and doers meeting once a month to hear talks, get updated, spread news and meet other open data enthusiasts. In this forum you will meet lots of key people with a passion for open data, including open data advocates, data owners, and specialist …

Do you want to know more about law and technology? Are you an entrepreneur, a business owner, or you work in a tech company and want to know what laws affect your business practices? Are you an attorney seeking to better understand new technologies your clients work with? If so, this is your group! What SEL offers: * EDUCATION * SEL puts the focus on the new technologies and the legal issues concerning them. We provide an opportunity to meet your peers and to learn more about the new developmen …

New tools and technologies appear daily for ingesting, munging, storing, processing, analyzing, visualizing data. These things don't often fit cleanly into existing groups. Wherever possible, we invite the authors and creators to join us to share with us their work -- be it in the form of a presentation, workshop, or happy hour. Events are held throughout the SF Bay Area. This is the sister group of the Data SF Bay LinkedIn group.

A hacker space for JavaScript enthusiasts, coding educators and students, and those who want to make the web a cool and beautiful place. http://hackreactor.com Twitter: @HackReactor

March 21 · 5:30 ContextLogic Wish along with John Wu would like to welcome everyone to our 3rd Tech Talk. Tentative Agenda: ° 5:30 - 6 Welcoming & socializing with refreshments ° 6 - 7 First Presentation - guest speaker John Wu, Distinguished Scientist of ACM & a Senior Member of IEEE, for a discussion on Fastbit indexing & its use cases involving large-scale scientific applications. ° 7 - 8 Second Presentation - Wish.com engineering on indexing techniques in mongodb ° 8 - whenever - Q&A & socia …

This is a group for anyone interested in big data technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analysis, data visualization, etc. All skills levels are welcome. I have started this group for big data professionals to network and learn the latest in the big data technology. Looking forward to having lively discussions about the cutting edge big data technology and its impact on the business world.

Are you a Promoter, Developer, Marketer, Collaborator, and/ or Observer? It doesn't matter what role you fill. Your skills, passion, and enthusiasm are what we need to make a difference for the residents of Alameda County. Create a concept, web and/or mobile app that: Will benefit Alameda County residents, businesses and/or visitors & Uses at least one of the data sets from Alameda County Open Data or create data about Alameda County. Join the group today and get the latest info on Apps Challeng …

This is a forum for individuals, large and small business and non-profits, and legislative bodies to come together to discuss the most pressing internet, mobile, social media privacy issues of our day. I want to bring people to together specifically around the issues of privacy, legislation, and big data and each person's personal data. Social media and mobile privacy affects us all. What we put out there today will effect our future tomorrow: What do we really agree to as far as Terms and Condi …

Meet other developers and ops engineers using Docker. Docker is an open-source engine for building and deploying cloud applications as standalone containers which can run on any server - from the VM on your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance, and everything in between. Docker is a great building block for deploying web apps, database services, service-oriented architectures, and so on.