'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 gaining insights from data, and meeting people facing similar challenges. All backgrounds are welcome. The group is a diverse mix of researchers, industry professionals, and academics; from computer scientists, engineers, statisticians, desig …

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 …

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 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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 the leading software 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.

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.

Big Data Community This is a community to bring together the four core areas of Big Data *Data Scientists *Data Technologists *Data Business use *Data Visualization so that individuals can share and spread their knowledge across multiple communities and disciplines.

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.

About Londata: We created Londata to provide a space where people interested in the commercial opportunities presented by data can come together, listen to a great speaker or two and share war stories. Our aim is to make our attendees and their companies even more successful. Check out the 60s second digest from Londata III with Moshi Monsters below... If you want to follow us @londataevent the hash tag is #londataevent

We have no scheduled meet ups yet arranged we want to gauge interest first. Once we have a few people interested we will sort out a meeting

Are you interested in Twitter's open source distributed realtime computation framework "Storm" & based in London? Then this meetup is for you. We get together to share use cases, experiences and tips on how to use this framework. "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." Project GitHub Group photo courtesy of Paul Bica

Graphite made it's way upstream ... let's talk about it The goal is to share experience, knowledge, ideas and share how we get things done. This group is all about graphite, the tool around it and its multiple dashboard: Gdash, Tasseo, Giraffe, Descartes, Graphiti, etc.

Learn how to code. Want to know what programming and computer science are all about? Then look no further! We will do a bit of everything: web design, data visualization, front- and backend development, and much more! So...if you are hoping to learn new skills, get creative, or just try something different, then sign up now and get involved!