A group devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the London Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data analytical solutions.

This is a group for those interested in collaborating and thought sharing within the fields of big data and analytics. We aim to create a global community to lead the Big Data revolution. All skill levels are welcome. With a vast amount of data now available, understanding and managing this data is crucial. Meetups will feature in-depth discussions, war stories and sharing best practices. The first two hours will consist of short presentations and discussions followed by an hour of drinks and ne …

Welcome to Big Data London - Europe's biggest Big Data community. Big Data London brings together people working on Big Data projects. If you're using Hadoop, Apache Cassandra or any other NoSQL related technology, if you're involved with web apps, enterprise apps, data analytics, financial apps or storage at massive scale, or simply want to learn more about the space, then you'll find something interesting here. So come and join us.

This is a group for entrepreneurs and professionals interested in real time metrics, lean analytics and data driven decision making. This is an open group although Geckoboard clients will have priority access to each event. The venue and dates will be communicated in advance via Meetup.com and Geckoboard mailing list. http://www.datadrivenlondon.com/ About Geckoboard Geckoboard is a realtime status board for businesses. It collects your business information from many online services, summarises …

Hi Big Data enthusiasts my names Nathan, I'm a regular attendee at many of the Big Data meet ups decided this rapidly expanding space is in need of some hiring solutions to help both employers and employees find suitable matches in confidence. So please, if you’re on here or your employee is it doesn’t mean you/they are looking but you may be contacted by someone who is! I hope people will just use it just like any other job board but it’s free and with the benefit of it being our market specif …

Are you working with data, as a hobby or career? Do you want to connect with people who are? We are a multidisciplinary group for people passionate about data. We welcome all backgrounds, including scientists, geeks, engineers, statisticians, analytics fans, business intelligence curious, bioinformaticians, philosophers, economists, entrepreneurs, or just pure enthusiasts. Watch this space for Data Insights meetups! If you can't wait, you can join our Cambridge meetups at  http://www.meetup.com/ …

This is a meetup about business use of social data. Like me you may be wanting to use Social data (aka Social media data, big data, unstructured data) to drive your organisation ahead but have discovered it's not quite as easy as it looks. You may be asking questions like: What social data should I use and why? What can I learn from others who have used social data successfully in their business? What are the key trends in the use of social data? Where can I meet with social data publishers fac …

This group is for women who love data; big or small. Whether you work in data or want to know what the fuss is all about. Let's get together to share experiences, learn and shout about our achievements. The group format will be directed by the needs of it's members. At whatever stage of your career and whatever your specialty be it a Statistician, Developer, Visualizer, Journalist or a little of everything we hope to have a place for everyone to develop. We hope to get women working on interesti …

Gathering of people who are interested in data visualization. Speaker series - watch and listen to fellow designers, statisticians, mathematicians, architects, programmers, start ups, and other great people in the industry. 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/Gephi Bringing together data visualizers across London.

This group is for anybody in Web Analytics (we call ourselves Analytics Ninjas!) irrespective of which tool you use: e.g. Google Analytics, Omniture, Webtrends, Coremetrics, Optimist, Maxymiser practitioners and/or users involved in AB or MVT testing, Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) and all other measurement related digital things! It does not matter if you are in eCommerce or not – please feel free to come along! The group has grown rapidly in a year to over 200 users. Some are students but …

'One of the most exciting meetups in Cambridge' - Cabume http://t.co/XQWF5rn Are you working with data, as a hobby or career? Do you want to connect with people who are? Data Insights - Cambridge is a multidisciplinary meetup group for people interested in gaining insights from data, and meeting people facing similar challenges. All backgrounds are welcome. The group is a diverse mix of researchers, industry professionals, and academics; from computer scientists, engineers, statisticians, desig …

This is a networking group for those interested in Big Data & the Cloud. It is open to all Big Data and Cloud specialists in London who like to share their experiences and ideas. Organised by eSynergy Solutions, an IT recruitment company based in the heart of the City. In early 2012 we set up a Cloud and Big Data division  specialising in recruiting for contract and permanent Big Data technical positions. We work with Big Data Vendors, Specialised Consulting companies and end user clients to fi …

We see a lot of people who have totally different data needs or people who are interested in the different NoSQL and Big Data solutions.  We also meet people who are more interested the networking side rather than formal talks that the various usergroups do.  So we thought an open pub social would help the noSQL and Big Data community grow.  We hope that a pub social would help educate and cross pollinate ideas and have the bonus of being just plain good fun. This is our monthly informal social …

The Big Data Debate is a meetup group where like-minded professionals can get together and discuss relevant and timely topics in big data. We facilitate discussion by bringing you highly regarded speakers across a range of disciplines and allowing you the chance to become an interactive part of the discussion. Members of this group include a range of professionals working across all areas of big data in and around London. Meetups are held once a month at a central London location and include sp …

DataScienceLab - A meetup for data scientists, or those interested in data science (hacking data) to come together to build an output focussed community directed towards the practical aspects or the doing of data science. The primary focus of this group will be on doing good with data science through hackathons and other data hacking projects & events arranged in association with organisations actively involved in the making our world into a better place; charities, NGOs etc. Meetup schedule wil …

Calling all data do-gooders: DataKind UK is a meetup for the United Kingdom chapter of DataKind, a community of data scientists and non-profits working together to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity. DataKind encourages local meetups to share ideas, collaborate across communities, discuss new tools and practices, and help bring about a better world through data for social causes. Come hang out with other conscientious dataists and tech-savvy social innovators …

We're here to discuss the possibilities of creating new products and services built on Big Data. We're particularly interested in how Quantified Self thinking is expanding laterally towards the concept of Quantified Society.

This group discusses the design and implementation graph databases with a focus on distributed architectures. These databases use graph structures with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store information. You should join if you need to deliver systems and services for social networking, business intelligence, scientific research, or similar areas requiring fast discovery of higher-order relationships (node to edge graph structures) in large, distributed data.

Welcome to the meetup around anything a Apache Hive. Hive is a powerful tool to explore and process big data quickly and easily. It can be an important building block in a data pipeline and data analysis. We are interested in anything related to Hive including Hadoop, cloud computing, testing, development processes, best practices, use cases, data analysis, data processing, data cleaning, NoSQL, SQL, HiveQL, denormalization, map-reduce, big data, and more. Join and contact us if you want to pres …

DNAdigest is a charity created to shake up genomics research: loads of DNA sequencing data is being generated, but not enough data is being shared between researchers, a fact which is a huge barrier for the advancement medical research. With our not-for-profit organisation DNAdigest we are proposing a technically simple and elegant solution that to a great extent will solve the problem of secure data sharing for research. Our biggest challenge is not the implementation of the solution, but to en …

Data is growing in size and complexity. Increasing velocity, volume and variety of data are driving new database technologies and techniques of data analysis. NOSQL databases are becoming more popular and widely accepted. This is leading to a disruption in the database market and a fragmentation of database solutions. At DeNormalised we want to bring together people who are interested in keeping up to date with the evolving landscape of data persistance and analysis. Our meetups will consist of …

Traditional marketing is insufficient to address needs of today's customers. Science of marketing is now based on customer insights - understanding where the demand is and positioning and developing presence where opportunities exist. Well, it's time to do a remix of the traditional marketing mix. ReMix is just not about marketing but we talk all things about data, analytics, new technologies, product development, pricing, business models and new channels. We will inform, inspire, connect, sourc …

We are the Hadoop users group for the UK based in London. We meet monthly for talks and discussion on all topics related to Hadoop. Join if your intrested in learning what Hadoop is, how people are using it with their big data problems, and to meet other people with experience running and coding on Hadoop cluster around London and the UK.

The Pentaho London Usergroup ( PLUG ) has been reformed, now with support directly from Pentaho. We meet to find out the latest goings on with the Pentaho stack, and also to discuss and learn about related technologies. Learning what other users are doing with the product also becomes a great source of inspiration for all. The Pentaho community in London is also growing rapidly (partly fuelled by the rise in Big Data) so come down and make some new contacts. Our events are deliberately kept tech …

During Lucene Eurocon 2011 in Barcelona, a number of us from different search companies met and discussed data conditioning and pipelining (ways to obtain, transform and process data before it is indexed by a search engine). We've started this group to bring these people together on-line and we hope to have physical meetups occasionally as well, at other search-related events. We're not technology or license specific - if you're building or using pipelines or similar processes come and join us, …

This is a group for anyone, in the Greater London area, who is interested in learning about and sharing ideas about using Splunk.

Are you interested in Twitter's open source distributed realtime computation framework "Storm" & based in London? Then this meetup is for you. We get together to share use cases, experiences and tips on how to use this framework. "Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation." Project GitHub Group photo courtesy of Paul Bica

Meetup to discuss and get help on practical open source Business Intelligence focussed on Jaspersoft