Attention Meetups are opportunities to connect with like-minded people interested in making effective use of attention data, developing attention services, and generally expanding the attention economy.

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.

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 …

Network security has made some major advances in the past couple decades, so much so, that is has become incredibly difficult to attack a well secured network perimeter as a means of accessing the data and systems contained therein. So it’s no wonder that malicious users have begun pursuing other avenues and skirting the perimeter defenses all together. From the attacker’s standpoint, breaching a network is all about economics and ROI. It just doesn’t make sense to mount an attack that will c …

Meet local professionals, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts interested in the Semantic Web. 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 wide web. By acknowledging this welcome message you agree to this practice. If you have any questions about this practice please don't hesitate to ask the organizer of the group.  

This group is for like-minded hackers and founders to... Bounce new ideas. Find help to solve technical problems. Share and learn about the very latest in web and mobile development. Meet your future technical co-founder     Please join us if you're a founder or hacker and... You work at a startup, You want to work at a startup, You have started a company, and/or You want to start a company.  

Data Semantics of the Real-time Web. http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/DIRT.pdf

This is an approximately monthly meetup for people who are into drinking beer and Linux system administration / 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.

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 administrat …

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 …

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/  

A regular meetup for developers, data contributors, and anyone who's interested in the open data repository at Freebase.com.

Rapleaf is a San Francisco-based data startup with an ambitious vision: we want every person to have a meaningful, personalized experience online. We host a speaker series as a resource to other startups and entrepreneurs. Past speakers have included: Richard Ling: General Partner at Rembrandt Venture Partners, with a talk on the venture capital world, and how pattern recognition is everything in investing. Shawn Bercuson: Founder and CEO of Prescreen.com, with a talk on how personalizat …

DocuSign eSignature Hackers have joined together to eliminate paper out of consumer, business and mobile apps. Any time there is an application that has a print button, sends a document attachment or has an OCR module for the sake of getting data and signature from users - a DocuSign Hacker can get the app into the 21st century. Viva La Green Revolution!

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.

Join us and meet other SproutCore and JavaScript developers to share knowledge, review the state of the art, and dream up new applications. SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins. SproutCore works by doing the only thing that can truly eliminate the latency problem: it moves your business logic to the client.  SproutCore applications are full-fledged programs, written in JavaScript. That JavaScript e …