Good data visualization help you to tell good stories, both in the field of business and academia. Good data visualization provide you quick insight of large data and better communicate to business people! Our goal in the group is to share the successful experience about data visualization, including both technical software and creative ideas!

This is a group of users and others interested in using and learning more about open source business intelligence tools grouped together under the name of Pentaho. These include Weka (machine learning), Kettle for loading data into a database (ETL), Montrian (OLAP), and other java-based applications for reporting.

Business Intelligence (BI) is the exciting new discipline of skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making in every organization. The Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for discussing advances in BI. Talks range from industry and process trends, through the software tools that enable BI to best practices and issues that arise from their application. Our mission is to create a community of Business Intelligence professionals …

This group is for anyone interested in log management and data analysis. Developers, devops, IT, marketing, sales, anyone that deals with logs can benefit from this group as well as professionals that would use log data for analysis of business processes.   We will have lightning talks and guest speakers, including customers with real-world stories, industry luminaries and more. At heart, this is an informal, social gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that think logs are cool. Who Should Join t …

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Data Warehouse Group! This is a user group to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences building data warehouses. This group is open for everyone interested in networking with other data warehousing professionals (architects, developers, modelers, analysts, data scientists, PMs, directors, recruiters, etc), learning the latest technologies and trends, and sharing best practices and experiences. For those interested in: Data Wareho …

There are meet-ups and there are meet-ups! So, why add another meet-up? Well, we felt that it’s time that there should be a meet-up wholly dedicated to all things around “ Big Data” & “ Cloud Computing”. Mankind has never seen so much data as it is seeing today; Big Data is a serious challenge for all businesses, small and big. Cloud Computing technologies are changing the way we conceptualize, design & develop business solutions. These two buzzwords need to lose their “buzz” status and become …

For - IT managers, Ananlyst, Data Warehouse specialist, BI Developers, ETL developers, Data Architects, Business Analyst, BigData specialist, HANA, Hadoop, Hortonworks, Cloudera users

Thanks for dropping by! Our group focuses on enterprise datacenter strategies including but not limited to: Cloud Computing, (Reinforcing the Open, Capable, and Affordable IT Infrastrcuture), Virtualization, Datacenter Management, Best Practices (Hardware and Software), and Innovative IT Ideas for the future!

This group aims to bring together software professionals who work with Renewable Energy projects. The group's name is: Software for Renewable Energy or SWRE. SWRE should be pronounced like the French word: soiree. As such, we are all very valuable party-goers in this industry and the more we talk and work together, the greater impact we'll all have. Potential topics for meetups include: * presentations/demos of RE related projects we're all working on * discussions of what tools and technologies …

There are demands for good mathematicians to write algorithms that can churn through billions or trillions of data points and show where patterns emerge. The Economist data issue raised this issue as follows: "During the recent financial crisis it became clear that banks and rating agencies had been relying on models which, although they required a vast amount of information to be fed in, failed to reflect financial risk in the real world. This was the first crisis to be sparked by big data—and …

A San Francisco and Silicon Valley based group focused Oracle EPM, BI and Big Data Technologies including Endeca Information Discovery, Hyperion Essbase, Oracle BI and Analytics Applications, Big Data  including NoSQL, Hadoop, Cloudera, R, Oracle Data Integrator, Big Data Appliance, Exalytics, Master Data Management, DRM, Hyperion Planning, and Hyperion Financial Management, and an ever expanding suite of Oracle related technologies. Please join us as we share user experiences, problems and solu …

You have the questions? Our Gurus have the answers! Once every month, we will have one guru, in either Big Data or Cloud domain, answer questions impromptu from attendees.  Questions can be technical ("I am trying to setup Hadoop on my laptop") or non technical ("I am trying to understand players in Hadoop world") We also have a on-going hackathon series aimed at developers who want to learn hadoop.  These are hands on sessions where attendees learn and develop a new concept.

Today is the age of Scalable Systems and Big Data. Providing a meetup where we can discuss innovation, solutions and have pub nights for drinking and socializing.

Join award winning UX designer Phil Dupré and team for a small, informal discussion at Maprehend about managing and collaborating on projects visually. Often times managing projects is too complex to depend on just words for communicating. We learn visually very easily so why can't we have a way to visually communicate easily? Especially when it comes to some of the most difficult things to manage? Like projects involving several complex facets with several complex people. Even if you’re sitting …

We love big data, analytics, innovation, and strategy. We're dedicated to smarter, more intelligent methods for using big data in analytics, social media, cloud, and business intelligence. To learn more, visit http://future-bi.tv/

Join us to learn about Oracle Big Data/NoSQL and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other professionals.

Ideas, learning, experimentation, and conversation about graph data and its value to businesses and consumers alike. Located in Redwood City, the heart of Silicon Valley's Data Corner, the Lab explores the application of graph theory and emerging database and visualization technologies.

This group covers everything related to distributed data processing and one key focus is Mesos as a platform for creating distributed systems. Topics will include ops and tools for running mesos on cloud infrastructure or in a custom data center, data processing with spark, realtime data processing with storm and how to build custom schedulers.

Data Science! It's all the talk these days! Our team, 0xdata, wants you to join the discussion about our new fast analytics engine, H2O. H20 is ran on top of HDFS. H20 makes it possible to learn bigdata at scale. H20 guarantees one thing: move code, not data. move fast. Join our group! Join the discussion!

"This group is for all IT's, engineers, and software developers, that want to know about how your environment can have the best connectivity, power, redundancy, and security in a Tier 3/raised floor data center in SF, instead of a hot room onsite that can be a potential hazard for your business because of cooling or connectivity issues.This group will be useful for many data and cloud environment needs for start-ups, mid sized, and enterprise local business" The group plans on meeting twice a mo …

The Silicon Valley Chapter of ASAP is a dynamic chapter of the Global Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals that focuses on addressing the alliance-related needs of individuals and companies in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. We offer our members a wide variety of targeted programs and skills workshops, current information on industry best practices, case studies to support professional development, and education to help grow your business and professional s …

Big Data is in vogue, its the new buzzword. But what is Big Data? Do we know all the pieces of the Big Data puzzle? This group will cover all the five pieces of Big Data - Infrastructure, Data Storage/Management, Data Sciences, Visualization and one missing piece. We will cover one piece of the puzzle in every meetup. The idea is to have a holistic view of Big Data.

We have Hadoop meetups that brings awareness about Hadoop Ecosystem to an extent or that discusses about the future enhancements in Hadoop and products and things that can be done. But there is no proper meetup that can provide perspective of a real Hadoop Developer to the current market that can address any level of knowledge seeker. Also there is no meetup group where one actually working on Hadoop Ecosystem can discuss common issues they face and ask for help. This meetup group overcomes thes …

A collectively organized group for the San Francisco Bay Area MicroStrategy Community. We are dedicated to serving the needs of MicroStrategy Users in the San Francisco Bay Area. See our LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-MicroStrategy-4820416?gid=4820416

Big Data Silicon Valley was created to help demystify big data, explore interesting use cases in different industries, go over some opportunities in the market and share tools that are available for your big data projects. We'll also go over what are some opportunities that startups can tap into in this industry. Why should you care: Big data will drive $120 billion of IT spending in 2013, according to Gartner. 93% of businesses feel like they're losing money by not being able to use the infor …

Analytics is sometimes an “afterthought” rather than a core function as part of decision making in companies. There is often a disconnect between what model or dashboard an analyst is building and where the business is actually going. However, when companies and departments are able to align the two, they turn the business onto its head and give competitors a run for their money. This group is for business users who want to learn and apply analytics to manage their business. Connect with like mi …

BlueKai invites you to join our engineering team for bi-monthly Tech Talks. We provide the beer and pizza, and you provide the questions. BlueKai will continue to bring a variety of subject matter experts into our Cupertino office, and invite all interested engineers to stop by for informal presentations and conversation. We would love to see you at the next Tech Talk!

This meetup is about sharing knowledge & learning the latest developments about statistics, machine learning, math, analytics, parallel algorithms, distributed systems.