This group is for all those interested in using predictive analytics to identify patterns in the large amount of data now available. It's a place to share challenges, experiences and best practices. Any skills levels are welcome!

A warm welcome to Big Data / Data Science / Data Analytics Jobs! With Data growing at such an exponential rate, organisations are flocking to find solutions of how to manage their Critical Data. This has created a new breed of expertise that is in somewhat short supply. This group aims to bring together a community with a common interest in analysing, understanding and monetising Big Data, create opportunities for those who are able to do so and solve a few problems for Organisations’ who are no …

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 generating insights from data, making decisions from intelligence and meeting people facing similar challenges. All backgrounds are welcome. The group is a diverse mix of researchers, industry professionals, and academics; from computer scien …

Big Data presentations, discussions, hack events and taught sessions in Brighton. Open to everyone across interests, specialisms and skill levels - join if you're intrested in learning more about Big Data or sharing your knowledge with the community. Some topics we might cover What is Big Data? What is big data exactly? What new things does big data make possible, and who are they useful to? Who's buying it - what's the business case? Data Science What is a data scientist? Stats 101 for …

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 …

A collaborative project to transform Brighton and Hove into a world-class open-data city, in which all citizens can together lead more rewarding, more prosperous, and more fulfilling lives.

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 …

If you're interested in the new breed of databases -- Riak, MongoDB, Cassandra and others -- and you want to learn more about them and chat with others about NoSQL and big data, come and join our group. We'll have regular meet-ups in and near to Birmingham, with the best speakers as well as food and drink provided by a sponsor.

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 …

BRUM is a group for R users at all levels and from all backgrounds based in and around Birmingham (UK) and the West Midlands, to meet and discuss R-related topics and to promote the use of R. R is a free/open source project and is a leading software package for data analysis, statistics and data visualisation. Anyone with a background or interest in R is welcome! Sponsorship for this event is kindly provided by The Data Mine Ltd. and Revolution Analytics.

Join the Couchbase meetup group to learn more about this NoSQL document database for web and mobile applications. Couchbase is particularly well suited for interactive applications, providing easy scalability, consistent high performance, 24x365 availability, and a flexible data model for ease of development.

Welcome to our Hertfordshire based PASS Chapter. We are a community of people who work with Microsoft SQL Server. The Hertfordshire User Group for SQL Server (HUGSS) is dedicated to learn, share, and build knowledge sharing community for SQL Server and the ecosystem of technologies that touch it. Every two months, we will be holding free learning presentations on a range of topics, including Business Intelligence, SQL Server Architecture, Data Visualisation and Database Administration.

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 …