Business measurement, modeling and metrics have become critical to businesses of all sizes and across all industries. In today's competitive environment, executives need to be at the top of their game when it comes to understanding their business performance. There is data everywhere about the market, competitors, customers and businesses, but getting to the core of the information, and turning that data into an advantage is challenging. This group brings together executives from multiple indust …

Business Intelligence (BI) is the exciting new discipline of skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making in every organization. The Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for discussing advances in BI. Talks range from industry and process trends, through the software tools that enable BI to best practices and issues that arise from their application. Our mission is to create a community of Business Intelligence professionals …

The original organizer has had to leave as organizer so now we are in the process of deciding if and with what focus this group should continue on. Please feel free to make suggestions on the main mailing list or discussion forum.

This Meetup group supports the SF Bay ACM Chapter.  You can join the actual SF Bay Chapter by coming to a meeting - most meetings are free, and our membership is only $20/year ! The chapter has both educational and scientific purposes: - the science, design, development, construction, languages, management and applications of modern computing. - communication between persons interested in computing. - cooperation with other professional groups See official bylaws at http://www.sfbayacm.org/?at …

The Big Data Analytics Speaker Series is an Adobe/Omniture sponsored speaker series that is open to the general public. Meetings will be conducted monthly in a workshop style meet-up at Adobe's downtown San Jose headquarters and present expert speakers from academia and industry to discuss topics related to the analysis of big data sets and range from tutorials to expert roundtable discussions and cover analytical models to best practices. There will also be specific topics related to mobile, so …

On a Hackternoon, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud, cross platform BlackBerry Developers hack and have fun together. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We learn by watching, asking, listening, and doing. We use a combo of Paired Programming, brain power, and a project deployment to help you stay caught up.  Usually we meet at a WIFI cafe or a co-working location like Ground Floor, Hacker Dojo, or NextSpace.

We discuss all things Big Data including tools, use cases and especially opportunities around this emerging area of large scale data

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. 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 second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a presentation on Mongo.

SVForum fosters innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership within the San Francisco/Silicon Valley ecosystem of individuals and businesses participating in emerging technologies. We do this by: - creating connections and community - providing education and access to reources - linking the global business community to Silicon Valley, and - facilitating the exchange of unbiased knowledge, insights and best practices. With the support of an outstanding team of knowledgeable, passionate volunt …

This is a group for all Big Data professionals to include programmers, architects, platform specialists like Hadoop, MongoDB, GreenPlum, Cloudera, Hortonworks etc. We welcome Engineers, IT Professionals, Architects, Data Scientists, Analytics Experts, Sales and Marketing Professionals, Entereneurs. We will be holding lectures, tutorials, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all professionals. We will feayure local, regional and international conferences with world famous …

TechXploration is PayPal's free, tech-focused speaker series that occurs monthly in San Jose. Hear from Valley-based tech luminaries while sampling the finest craft beer and local eats! All are welcome. Join us!

This group is dedicated to organizing discussions, meetups, and events around data 2.0. The focus of data 2.0 is about utilizing the new avalanche of online data and new data-centric business models. The Data 2.0 organizers are also the producers of DataWeek.co Sept 22-27 in San Francisco as well as the Data 2.0 Summit (data2summit.com) We view "Old Data" is the practice of closing off your data, and data 2.0 hosting data online and making it accessible by other organizations. That includes big …

When your startup is gaining momentum, you need Heroes. Who/what is a 'Startup Hero'? Heroes are talented people who want to get involved in a promising startup. Heroes take something from good to great or from great to amazing. Heroes are marketers, developers, engineers, designers, enthusiasts, data scientists, executives, mentors, business people, angels, evangelists or anyone who can make a difference for a startup. Heroes drive innovative and creative projects to make it happen. Join us to …

We're a group that uses hacking, stats, and machine learning to dig up information in the world or sports wagering. Programmers, betters, and everyone else who enjoys crunching numbers or sharing betting systems is welcome to contribute and work on ideas.

Data Science! It's all the talk these days! Our team, 0xdata, wants you to join the discussion about our new fast analytics engine, H2O. H20 is ran on top of HDFS. H20 makes it possible to learn bigdata at scale. H20 guarantees one thing: move code, not data. move fast. Join our group! Join the discussion!

About us ... We are a group of people who are interested to develop BlackBerry Apps, or to port their existing Android, IOS, or other Apps to BlackBerry...... Come and join us for some BlackBerry Jam fun!!! Let's share ideas and talents, learn, play and succeed together!!! Helpful Links: *** Porting Your Existing Apps to BlackBerry 10 *** Getting Ready For Jamming C/C++ Native SDK HTML5 Webworks Action Script Adobe AIR Java Android Run Time BlackBerry Java App Generator BlackBerry Device Si …

This is a group for SAP HANA (in-memory database technology) adopters and hackers. This includes programmers, architects and experts who work on SAP HANA or are looking to learn more about it. The goal of this group is to share experiences with working on SAP HANA, or any other Big Data (Hadoop, MongoDB, GreenPlum, Cloudera, Hortonworks) integration scenarios. We will be holding lectures, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all members.

Conversations on Cleantech 2.0 We have seen this picture before. Only a decade ago, Web 1.0 had crashed amid high profile failures and bankruptcies. Billions had been lost. LPs and VCs mourned that successful business models were virtually nonexistant in all of the four "C"s on the internet: Communication, Content, Commerce and Community. It's hard to remember now, but it was very challenging to raise money for internet businesses. But bandwith, storage, and software platforms had gotten cheap. …

The SF Bay Area Big Data Think Tank brings together experts and visionaries from academia and the industry in : - Visualization, data infrastructure, and data science - Applications that leverage Big Data in areas such as advertising, marketing, eCommerce, CRM, security, etc. - Art and design, specially as it relates to data We host periodic talks, panel discussions and hackathons. Join us! Come Learn, Network & Share. Brought to you by The Hive that incubates, funds and launches businesses that …

Big Brains is a speakers series with some of the top minds in Silicon Valley. All are welcome. Just bring your Big Brain along! We'll be hosting at least every other month, if not monthly. Look forward to seeing you at our office for one of our upcoming events in Mountain View.

Welcome to the new world of health+care! By 2020 both the US and  global healthcare landscape will look dramatically different from the healthcare delivery models of today. We are in a time of exciting and rapid disruption, change and innovation! This community is for anyone interested in the future of health+care. Big data, the cloud, mobile devices and tracking systems present just the "tip" of the iceberg. (Lets not forget the ICD-10, blue button initiative, kiosks, III, HITECH, predictive an …

This is a group for discussing Big Data Applications, Analytics, Algorithms and Architectures . This group is intended towards big data evangalists, technologists, architects, Hadoop administrators, data mining experts, data scientists, cloud experts, NoSQL , developers, consultants, and experts. The meetup will have product demonstrations, use case discussions, presentations of architectures and implementations. The locations would be in South Bay Area ( Silicon Valley)

This group is a meetup for people interested in the intersection between information security and the law. The group supports the work of the Information Security Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law. The ISC is a diverse group of lawyers, security experts, technologists, auditors and other professionals, whose focus includes the examination and analysis of legal, business, and technical aspects of securing the confidentiality, integrity and availability …

Data is more difficult to understand than text, let alone Big Data, and Big data is driving cloud computing now. Computation virtualization is not enough for big data, both data virtualization and communication virtualization are also necessary in order to make true Real-time Big Velocity Stream Computing happen We believe the true innovation lies on algorithmic innovation, not just hardware innovation or software innovation. Right now algorithm creation is an art instead of a science, and we f …

This meetup is about sharing knowledge & learning the latest developments about statistics, machine learning, math, analytics, parallel algorithms, distributed systems.

Each month we will have a startup engineer or entrepreneur share technology tips, and tricks that helped build their business. This is a highly technical group and in the past we covered topics such as "Scaling PInterest", "Introduction to Data Science", "Making Mobile Development Less Painfull", .... Come join the group and learn about how we build technology startups here in Silicon Valley.

Bay Area SAP Mobile Platform (BA-SMP) is a group of mobile architects and developers interested in mobile technologies focused on the enterprise. SAP Mobile Platform, SMP in short targets customer use cases ranging from online+real-time productivity apps to process based apps that can work in the middle of the Arctic circle.  We will cover HTML5/JS, Hybrid, Native and Meta Data Driven capabilites of SMP. We will include topics on integration with HTML5, jQuery Mobile, Titanium, Sencha Touch, pho …