Pentaho BI provides a full spectrum of data integration and business intelligence (BI) capabilities including data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL), interactive reporting, ad hoc analysis, rich visualizations, data mining, and predictive analysis. With a BI platform that has made it the world's most popular open source BI, Pentaho also provides broad enterprise data integration services for Big Data analytics and reporting. At our monthly user group we'll exchange knowledge and expe …

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Chefs getting together to cook the whole infrastructure. No chefs will be eliminated during the cook-offs.

We are an informal local Chicago digital forensic group. No fees or any affiliation required to attend. Anyone interested can stop by!

Welcome to the Chicago Jaspersoft User Group. The goal of this group is to get together to learn, share, and collaborate with others that are working with or want to work with the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, including: * JasperReports * iReport and Jaspersoft Studio * JasperReports Server * Jaspersoft ETL The members of the group will help to decide on topics for future meetings, present their experiences, and learn from each other.

Inspired by DataKind's DataDive 2012. We offer regular meeting space and opportunities for ongoing collaboration of non-profit data partners and data enthusiasts to explore and gain insights from interesting data sets for the greater good.

The Chicago Drupal community has a long and colorful history. It is one of the most vibrant around the country, and possibly the world. We have been long time attendees and members of the Chicago Drupal Meetup Group. We see a need in the Chicago community for an advanced Drupal meetup.  Somewhere we can get together and talk about solving the problems developers face.  In addition we wanted to help ramp people up to contribute to Drupal core using the Drupal Ladder program.  Finally, we wanted p …

This group is open to anyone who is interested in using technology to fuel social good. During these meetups we'll talk about how to use technology to bring an idea to life, and bring in Chicago nonprofit leaders and entrepreneurs to help guide the discussion. We'll focus on how to build web and mobile solutions to solve real-world problems such as data management, registrations, transactions, and community building, among others.

Are you a student, techy, entrepreneur, or weekend-warrior who uses tools from Machine Learning in your research, business applications, or small projects? Would you like to meet like minded people from the Northwestern and Chicago community who work with and develop these tools? Would you like to expand your knowledge of Machine Learning/Data Mining and its applications, and/or get involved in hackathons with a diverse group of data scientists?  Then come check us out! PLEASE RSVP FOR EVENTS SO …

The Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association was established to foster interest in statistical methods. We want to promote unity among analytical professionals, and aim to make information concerning statistical science available in order to stimulate research, and promote high professional standards. It is our hope to make statistics useful to practical affairs, for the advancement of society as a whole.

We are the technical folks at 1871. We're here to share ideas, code, questions, disaster porn and strong drinks. All 1871 members who touch code or infrastructure are welcome to join. Our startups live and die by our ability to build solutions quickly across a large surface area of problems. When you find yourself outside familiar territory, you want a trusted group of colleagues to turn to. When things blow up, you want someone to tell you how they blew up worse and survived. Let's build that.

This is an IBM sponsored Big Data meetup group.  Geared towards developers, data scientists and all Big Data enthusiasts, our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data platform. Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology.  It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills.  We provide a cloud environment …

This group is for professionals, thought leaders and researchers dedicated to Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, BI, Cloud Analytics, Cloud BI, Social Media Analytics, Sensor Data Analytics, Data Integration, Data Warehouse Appliances, Data Visualization, Data Management, etc. In short, this is a networking community focused on emerging technologies (Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.), and strategies that allow enterprises to leverage their data assets so they may better …

The Chicago 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.

This group is to foster knowledge about data management and meet to learn more about a broad set of topics such as MDM, data quality, trends in analytics/dashboarding, Big Data and what it means to you, open source alternatives for data integration and database technology, getting more out of your data warehouse, data appliances, etc. We will meet 6+ times per year to dive into a series of topics that will be educational and technical, and not simply vendor advertisements.  The forum online wil …