Are you interested in exploring Visual thinking and communication? Me too! Often I find it is easier to communicate to people through pictures/charts/visual aids. Recently I have started reading "Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work" written by Dan Roam and love the concept of Visual (Vivid) thinking he discusses. Interestingly there is no meetup group dedicated to discuss visual thinking or problem solving. Hence I am creating this group. ME: Interested learner of visual thinking. P …

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.

R is a free, open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization, and is increasingly used in both industry and academia. The purpose of this group is to bring Santa Barbara R users together to exchange information and ideas. Depending on the group's interests, we might also want to expand our focus to talk about other topics related to data analysis, such as Python, GIS applications, and d3.js.

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.

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.

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.

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 …