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 bi …

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

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 famo …

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 …

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

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.  

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 …

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 th …

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 Vertica Professionals group was created to provide a forum for those in the SF Bay Area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using Vertica and it's ecosystem for analytics.

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 …

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 …

On a Hackternoon, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We have no presentation; instead 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.

Advertising professionals as far North of Quebec to West of LA are welcome to join this meet up group. Our goal is to offer the most unique roundtable discussions that allow advertisers from all across North America to share experiences and positive trends. This group is perfect for anyone in TV, Radio, Broadcast, News Media, Coupons Book Publishers, Yellow Page Publications, and any type of Print Media.  We will also include topics that are important to Digital Web Media, Daily Deals Sites, SEO …

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!

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.