For data professionals who are passionate about making sense of large scale data using innovative technology.

Data 2.0 NYC is the east-coast arm of Data 2.0 conferences including Data2summit.com and DataWeek.co. We aim to host events and meetup groups in the NYC area as well. Data 2.0 focuses in Big Data, Social Data, and Open Data as they relate to making data more accessible online. We connect data entrepreneurs, investors, professionals, and media.

Data is all the rage these days, often presented as the next big trend in the evolution of the Web, and the next big opportunity for internet entrepreneurs. This Meetup focuses on the business aspects of the data revolution: startup opportunities, new products, business models, funding trends, emerging players, and ways for existing startups to leverage their data. Technical aspects will also occasionally be discussed, but attendees do not need to have a technical background. While hosted at Blo …

The Vertica Professionals group was created to provide a forum for those in the NYC Area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using Vertica and it's ecosystem for analytics.   We will be managing this group out of linked in -- http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4210608

User group for NYC area who want to learn more about the Pentaho Business Analytics

NY Graph is a place for people to learn about and discuss graph structures, graph theory, graph databases and related topics. We host technical presentations and lectures, product demos, lightning talks, seminars, town hall-style open forums and hands-on tutorials, in addition to less-structured monthly gatherings. Why graphs? Why now?Graph structures and methods are being used everywhere. As the size of datasets being generated, processed, and presented continues to grow, the relative strength …

Opani is a community of data people working together to understand humanity's rising river of information.

The IBM Global Business Services Virtual Center is a web-based, voice-enabled, easy-to-use 3D meeting and collaboration environment, built on the web.alive platform. This group is to coordinate events, presentations, meetings and other activities for this virtual space. You are welcome to visit the Center anytime at http://bit.ly/ibmavc. And we would also welcome ideas or suggestions for 3D meetups, especially around topics relating to Smarter Planet, Smarter Cities, business analytics an …

NYBI is a network of resources for Data professionals. Structured as a monthly Open Forum, the group focuses on Technology, Process and Best Practices topics rooted in Business Intelligence. Our events bring together vendors, entrepreneurs, and professionals for casual and informal technical deep-dives, discussion, and business networking. Events are classified within the following series: * Understanding the BI Stack * Best Practices * Vendor Solutions * Round Table Goals of the NYBI Me …

NYC Predictive Analytics is a non-profit professional group that meets monthly to discuss diverse topics in predictive analytics and applied machine learning.  We are a group 1000+ members strong comprised of analysts, computer scientists, engineers, executives, entrepreneurs and students with a deep interest in these fields & related technologies. Meeting topics are varied and can focus on, as examples, new trends and technologies, best practices for development in big-data environments, and fu …

Welcome to the New York City 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.

This group is for folks in the New York area interested in getting together to discuss MarkLogic and MarkLogic-related technologies.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs221/ I'm one of the 20,000+ student that signed up for Professors Thrun and Norvig's AI course (in three days???, I think they're targeting 200,000) and I know I'd like to participate in a local group. If you're in the course, please do become part of our local NYC group.  The speaker events aren't necessarily going to follow the course. Unless, of course, you'd like to propose and secure a speaker who can do so. I'm more than happy to discuss this. SEE DISCUSSION …

What is NoSQL? The definition of NoSQL varies greatly, but the NoSQL NYC Meetup will be a place to discuss any alternative databases: from large distributed key-values hashtables to document-stores.  Newbies welcome! You can also keep track of various NoSQL events in the city by following the group on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/nosqlnyc  Please let me know if I missed something. The goal of the meetup is to build a local community, so please do not join the meetup for the sole intention o …

Meet others in your local area interested in PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Database. Discuss this open source database and share the tips and tricks you've learned using it.

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