This group is for people who are interested in Data Science, Big Data, Hadoop, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and other disciplines involving turning raw data into value.

The Los Angeles Data Governance Users Group is a non-profit volunteer run organization with the objective of create a forum and exchange of information related to Data Governance.

Whether you're a beginner or expert, this group will meet to discuss strategies on getting into the C-Suite by mastering Big Data.

Blender is a 3D graphics application that can be used for modeling and visual effects. This group is for anyone interested in Blender, from novice to guru. We will meet and share projects as an extension of the online Blender community, build open source projects, and invite speakers from the national and international community. I started this group as a way for Blenderheads to meet and collaborate on film and animation projects in the Los Angeles area.

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!

Connecting Developers, Entrepreneurs, CTOs, Database experts, and anyone interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. Along with introductions to social network analysis and the patterns behind social (and human created) data. 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.

The purpose of this group is to bring R users in San Diego together for presentations and discussions on topics of mutual interest. R is a free, open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing. It is a premier tool for bioinformatics, data mining, machine learning, business analytics, and a wide variety of other fields.

Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is an open source software/programming GIS project that can be used for raster, vector, and geospatial data analysis, as well as, modeling, image processing, and visualization. This group is aimed to bring together practitioners (from industry and academia alike) in order to exchange knowledge and experience in solving spatial data analysis/statistical problems by using GRASS. Emphasis will also be given to problems involving GRASS and oth …

Local MicroStrategy community for Business Intelligence professionals and users in Southern California. Join fellow MicroStrategy users to share best practices, hear about the latest releases, generate new ideas and discover how to make the most of your MicroStrategy investment. Ideal for customers, partners & all users of MicroStrategy software.

Greater San Diego area based user-group focused on bringing Hadoop users together to discuss use-cases, share problems and solutions as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems and Bigdata solutions.

The Excel Refresher Meetup is here for beginning and intermediate users of Excel who would like to learn and share tips and tricks with fellow users. Maybe you are upgrading from or to Excel 2007 2010 2013 or maybe your new to Excel all together. This is a great place to help get acquainted and we will be a great support when Excel 2013 comes out soon. Excel is an extremely dynamic and useful program and there are TONS of resources out there on the web for MS Excel, but sometimes it’s hard to se …

San Diego SQL Business Intelligence Group (SDSQLBIG) is non-profit, all volunteer run organization dedicated to learning and sharing information about delivering business intelligence solutions using Microsoft SQL Server and related technologies. Meetings are scheduled the first Thursday of each month. Join us beginning at 6:00PM for light refreshments and networking with SQL Server professionals followed by a technical presentation on a current SQL Server topic. Our technical presentation is …

FAB LAB is focused on developing creative learning experiences for people of all ages, and engaging students and community to explore ideas through the use of innovative technology. We welcome anyone interested in discussing or promoting physical fabrication and community-building based on digital techniques (2d cutting and folding, 3d printing and milling, etching, circuits, microprocessors, Web design, etc). FAB LAB San Diego was founded by Xavier Leonard and Katie Rast.

I'm organizing the Kinect Meetup. We're in the planning stages. If you'd like to participate, please let me know. This is an opportunity to meet with other kinect developers from L.A.. We will have live mocap demos, scanning demos, software tips and company demos...The purpose of this meeting is to showcase the best software I'm aware of for production purposes, create a community of kinect developers, showcase application of the software, and look toward future development. The Kinect, Xtion, L …