What is Data Vault, and why should we be interested in it?? Data Vault is a new generation Data Warehouse Database Modeling Method (akin to Inmon and Kimball modeling methods) that is designed to provide historical storage of data coming in from multiple operational systems, for building large scale, industry strength, rapidly evolving DW / BI systems. Designed by Dan Linstedt, Data Vault's Hub and Satellite Architecture specifically caters for todays complex Data Management needs, focussing on …

A group for business users and technically minded individuals alike who are seeking to understand how Agile methods work, discover new and interesting ways to build business intelligence systems and share experiences in building data warehouses

We will be meeting monthly to: hear talks on R-related topics sharing knowledge and experience provide R beginners with an opportunity to meet more experienced users discover the power of R as a serious, general and industrial strength data mining, analysis, visualisation and reporting tool, for use in commerce, government and other fields see case studies of real-life R applications in industry disocover related commodity, open source and free tools meet experts in specific R packages, techniq …

Hi All, This BDUG meetup group is being merged into the Big Data Analytics group at this address. http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Analytics-Meetup-Group/ We will soon be organising a meeting for the Big Data Analytics Meetup Group and look forward to meeting you and any new members at the event. Thank you, looking forward to bigger and better meetups, Cheers, Fernando Paul

This group assembles a mix of cartographers, GIS experts, developers, data journalists and open data enthusiasts. Bring your laptop, and hack on any project that interests you: a better bike map of Melbourne? visualise public transport data? make art from Twitter, Flickr or data.gov.au data? We play with technologies like TileMill, PostGIS, Leaflet, D3 - and anything else fun that lets us mix data from various sources in interesting, useful and entertaining ways.

Passionate about the art and science of analysing/moving/transforming/securing data? This is your group. We're bringing together old hands, seasoned pros and enthusiastic neophytes to share experiences, lessons and (hopefully) a good laugh in the field of information management. Started by a couple of information management mavens who despaired at the lack of a forum for people who give a damn about finely-crafted, industrial strength data solutions. No more good ideas and "if only..." conve …

This group was started to bring together Melbourne retail credit risk modeling professionals from the various financial institutions, telcos and consultancies based in Melbourne, and is intended to cover areas of interest centred on credit scoring (occasionally extending into neighbouring areas such as marketing analytics, fraud modeling, and data mining). The group provides a professional development opportunity for credit scoring analysts and an avenue for building professional networks with …