A gathering of current and aspiring Data Science practitioners. We focus on practical applications of exploratory data analysis, statistics, machine learning and data visualization to solve interesting problems in any field. Our aim is to create a forum for discussing the techniques of data science, independent of the tools used for it (such as R or Hadoop, for which there are excellent meetups in Atlanta already).

This is a group for people who genuinely enjoy learning, sharing, creating and designing anything data. It's about telling a story, and how data visualization is becoming more important than ever. So if your creative, obsessed with data visualization, and love infographics, come join the rest of us!

This is a group of people who do data visualization. Scientific animators, Tufte fans, fractal fiddlers, data miners, and artists are welcome. We'll meet on a regular basis to talk about visualization and show off our latest work. Where and when has yet to be determined. A nice quiet pub that everyone can get to would be ideal.

This is a group for anyone interested in meeting others in the digital measurement space to share knowledge and experiences.

This is a group for anyone interested in creating data visualization applications with Qlikview. Qlikview is a powerful data analytics tool that allows you to consolidate data from multiple sources, and explore the associations of that data.

Learning “Machine Learning” by Example A quick overview There are several online machine learning courses offered right now, Coursera, Udacity, Caltech, Stanford. This course is based on the “learning by example” principle. The students will be introduced in machine learning algorithms and data analysis techniques by actively working on a real dataset. Course style In this course we will not follow the traditional lecturing style with powerpoint style. It will be taught in lab sessions. We w …

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is rapidly gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its compact modeling syntax, its data visualization capabilities, and its ease of …

The ASBI is a vendor-neutral organization created for the purpose of sharing knowledge and experiences relative to business intelligence/analytics.

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

This Meetup is for all past, present, and wannabe Splunk users in the metro Atlanta area - or any Splunkers ready to make a road trip to metro Atlanta. Come share a drink and stories on how Splunk is turning machine data into insight through Operational Intelligence. We'll meet every month at a various bars, restaurants, and even your office if you'd like.

The Atlanta Big Data User Group is a community dedicated to promoting the technologies, practices and innovations needed for organizations to get maximum value from massive amounts of data. With over 2.5 trillion bytes of data accumulating around the world every day, we are at the epicenter of the Big Data revolution. Through an exchange of BIG ideas, education and fresh thinking from employees, contractors and technologists, Atlanta Big Data aims to focus on the specific Big Data issues, archit …

This group is dedicated to finding unseen patterns in large volumes of healthcare data such as claims data, pharmacy data, DME purchases, etc.

Continuous BI-Atlanta is a growing group of Business Leaders, Analysts and developers that meet monthly to talk about Business Intelligence.  Members connect and learn from professionals what it takes to create a culture of BI in today's world. If you're a Business leader or professional looking to meetup with BI professionals (BI Architect, Developer, designer, Analyst, etc) or you just want to keep up with the latest trends in BI, come visit Continuous BI at our next event.

Welcome to the Atlanta Jaspersoft User Group. The goal of this group is to get together to learn, share, and collaborate with others that are working with or want to work with the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, including: * JasperReports * iReport and Jaspersoft Studio * JasperReports Server * Jaspersoft ETL The members of the group will help to decide on topics for future meetings, present their experiences, and learn from each other.

We are "P"rofessional "C"areer "W"omen (focus in IT): We are busy and things are hectic in today's society. We are trying to fulfill our dreams as a goal oriented individual, but also as a "woman" who we used to dream of... Whether you are a single, single mother, married with children or married with no children, we all face issues as a "working woman". Our mission is to support each other emotionally and intellectually. We would like to have "actively participating" members to build close fri …

Meet other local Business Intelligence fans to discuss the Microsoft BI Platform (mostly SQL Server, but also SharePoint and Office). Unless otherwise announced, we meet on the last Monday of every month. To learn more about Microsoft Business Intelligence:  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/default.aspx Our main user group webpage is at http://atlantabi.sqlpass.org/ which has its own RSVP if you plan to eat. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AtlantaMicrosoftBusinessIntelligenceUsers

A place to connect with others in Metro Atlanta interested in learning about the new Julia mathematical programming language being developed for scientific computing. http://julialang.org/ http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/ Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical …