This group was created to provide a forum for those in the Austin area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using Vertica and it's ecosystem for analytics. If you are working with terabytes or petabytes of data, this group is for you!

Austin Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). Local Austin chapter of ACM SIGKDD, the premier professional society for machine learning and data mining. This group is specialized to Hadoop based big data machine learning. Alternative Web Site http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/austinsigkdd/

This is a group for people interested in data visualization using d3.js! It seeks to bring together beginners and experts alike to collaborate, share ideas, and contribute experience to the Austin d3 community. http://d3js.org/

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's column family-based data model. Let's get together and share what we know.

R is an open source computing language used for statistical analysis. The purpose of the group is to bring together students, academics, and practitioners to share knowledge and experience in data analysis utilizing R.

Open to all Austin area data geeks. Sorry, no recruiters.

Formerly known as The Austin Hadoop User Group (http://austinhug.blogspot.com), this is an Austin area Hadoop user group focused on helping Hadoop users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building solutions at scale that leverage the broader Hadoop and NoSQL Ecosystem.

We are the local R user group for Austin, TX. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics (http://www.r-project.org/). Our goal is to support and share R experience and knowledge among its users in the Austin community. We would like to hear how you use and enjoy the R language and statistical programming environment.

This is a group for people who like to brainstorm, research, prototype, pitch, and produce something useful by applying machine learning techniques. My hope is to bring people interested in machine learning together and apply theoretical concepts to real world applications.

2013 is the Year of the Graph. This group is open to all interested in Graph Databases, Graph Theory and algorithms, Graph mining -- anything graph.

First 20 min is A meet+greet. We spend an hour on learning syntax, where it's used, examples of it being used effectively. Beginners are welcome.  Many patient people come to these and can help you get your machine setup to program effectively. 2nd hour on is getting down to the practice of programming using community projects as a base. Don't worry if you don't have a machine. We are meeting in a computer lab that currently accommodates 26. Save your work online so you can access it when you ge …