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

Big Data Boston is for people with a passion for analytics & insights that are derived from the extreme information generated today. This group is for the small start up and the big company, the individual and the group, anyone in Boston that wants to make it the capital for Big Data!

This group will concentrate on understanding the tools and skill-sets needed to become an effective Data Scientist. We will explore all topics related to the data lifecycle including acquiring new data sets, parsing new data sets, filtering and organizing data, mining data patterns, advanced algorithms, visually representing data, telling stories with data and softer skills such as negotiations and selling your ideas based upon data.

This is a group for anyone interested in sports analytics and performance analysis. All skills levels are welcome. There will be in-depth discussions, war stories and sharing best practices. With the margins between success and failure both on and off the field being drawn on increasingly narrow lines, it is essential for franchises and governing bodies to invest in analytics to identify key areas where they can gain an advantage over competitors; from training and in-game analysis to fan engage …

Are you interested in data science but also passionate about international development? Then this is the meetup for you! Let's get together to explore how the rapidly growing areas of data science and big data can transform the world of international development and contribute to improving the lives of the billions of underprivileged and poor people in the world.

Transforming politics and public policy by applying data science best practices to political campaigns and organizations.

"Smart Data" refers to the high-value data used to inform business decisions. Our interest is in comprehensive enterprise solutions, from ingestion of data through to business insight. This includes: large-scale physical systems, virtual/cloud systems, operational systems such as Hadoop, BI tools, and techniques to drive business decisions

Join us to learn about Oracle Big Data/NoSQL and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other professionals.

Boston has an amazing group of people who not only create beautiful data visualization work, but also push the entire field forward with their contribution to the open source and academic communities. This meetup will aim to bring those people and anyone interested in data visualization together, fostering a community, creating a space for learning and enabling new partnerships. The meetup will host talks, hack days, workshops/tutorials and personal work showcases. If you would like to speak at …

Please stay tuned.  I will be posting new information for a Big Data event that is in the works.  John 10.07.12

Data mining! Predictive Modeling! Statistical Modeling! Predictive analysis! What does this all mean for marketers, and how can it work in your organization? This group aims to explore how data mining is leveraged by marketing departments and firms to predict behavior and optimize response and profitability.

Boston Storm Users is a group for developers using or hoping to learn about Twitter's Storm real-time data processing framework. We get together to discuss best practices, to exchange ideas and to learn how to apply Storm to various engineering challenges. 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. Storm is simple, can be used …

This group will provide a place to meet and discuss potential use of existing technologies and practice in the service of improving education. I started this group because there is a rich community across disciplines that offer a wide variety of complex approaches to this topic that merit review in the context of the the education sector. I look forward to reviewing technologies, organizing some hands on labs, participating in dialogue, and pursuing innovative approaches with you.

You should join this group if you use Vertica and/or would like to learn more, share information and best practices and meet really awesome people. This is also a place to discuss modern business intelligence (BI) and techniques of dealing with Really Big Data. There are many of us who are not satisfied with traditional monster slow and expensive data warehouses and BI systems and are switching to Vertica. Vertica is sponsoring and participating in our group. Compete inc will be partnering in th …

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 brush up your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

This is the R user group for the New England and Greater Boston area. R is a free and open programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. Along with this powerful software, comes a dynamic and vast community. The Greater Boston useR Group seeks to bring this community together to share ideas, discuss R related topics, and provide direction for new and experienced users. For more information on R, see The R Project at: http://www.r-project.org/

Boston Algorithmic Trading is for anyone interested in creating and using algorithms in the financial markets. We arrange monthly talks from practicing quants, algorithmic traders, trading technology experts, and academics. Our focus is practical, rather than theoretical. We enjoy talking about how to automate the purchase and sale of securities using statistics, machine learning, data mining, and algorithms.

This is your chance to prototype your ideas before going to VCs or for seed funding. We all have dream applications that need machine learning and predictive analytics. We can hack those app. using available machine learning APIs (from Microsoft, Google, BigML, BPA EyeQ, and so on). No need to learn those complicated math or gymnastics of matrices. This is also your way to find a co-founder, good developers, and some good feedback. By the way, investors are also welcome; coding is good for our …

Welcome to the Boston 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.

Elasticsearch is picking up steam in Bean Town. Let's share our experiences with it and strengthen the local community around it by introducing newcomers to the great features it has to offer.

CHUG: Cloudera Hadoop User Group for Boston/New England area

Calling all Growth Hackers! Are you obsessed with growing your business through carefully designed and tested internet marketing? Do you like to A/B test everything you do in life? If so, you have come to the right place! We plan to gather the very best Growth Hackers in Boston to exchange ideas, brainstorm new growth hacks, and inspire each other to achieve new levels of growth hacking success! [growth hacker (noun) - one who’s passion and focus is pushing a metric through use of a testable and …

Meet a new network of New England's bio entrepreneurs from business, academic, finance, scientific and medical communities. Our forum consists of discussions on emerging research and the commercialization and development of new technologies encompassing biotech, nanotech, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, environmental technology, information technology, healthcare, cell biology, life science research, pharmaceuticals, and drug discovery start-ups. It was designed for multi-disciplinary entrepre …

Fellow web entrepreneurs and VCs gather once a week in Cambridge, MA to grab some coffee, free WiFi, and chat about what's new. Around the world, tech entrepreneurs and investors are meeting regularly to drink coffee, network and hopefully do deals. No more of the old-school "please send us your executive summary before we'll even talk to you". A place to find opportunities. Where and when is it? Held every Wed morning from 8:30a-10:30am at Voltage Coffee, 3rd St, Cambridge, MA http://www.yelp. …