A Bay Area based Hadoop user group focused on helping Hadoop users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems.

With technologies such as Google Prediction API and mahout, it should now be easier to add for your website users: recommendations, separate ham from spam, and predict what newsletter content they will not consider spam. Let's explore and discuss these new technologies together and how we can use and efficienly implement/deploy them in our websites/projects/communities. Other applications of prediction/classification/clustering/collaborative filtering that I haven't thought of are welcome!

This group enables members to: 1.            Share BIG Data technology [applications using very large structured and unstructured datasets] experiences between members 2.            Impart some hands-on  training to newcomers to BIG Data 3.            Learn about applications of BIG Data in their line of business, including applications relevant to SMB Group is led by three technologists with substantial business and technical insights with a combined experience of more than 75 years, includin …

These are not your typical software engineering events.  BASE is focused on emerging technologies and creating events around topics that have never been attempted.  Events may be around such topics as Big Data, Machine Learning, Robotics, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Synthetic Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer History, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality (AR), and using software to create art. BASE creates events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all walks …

Discussion of nosql technologies and their use cases.

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The DataStax Cassandra SF User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across the bay area to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

This is a group for all Apache Hadoop users interested in solving big data challenges. We'll look at topics from data architecture, to technical deep dives, to the future of Hadoop and everything in between using the knowledge we have at Hortonworks. Want us to come to your area? Suggest a meetup and location.

This is a meetup group for users and contributors to Apache Sqoop (incubating). Sqoop is a system designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. You can use Sqoop to import data from external structured datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational datab …

This group is open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Solr, Hector, Open Source, NoSQL, DataStax, Apache Pig, and high scalability computing. Let's get together and share what we know.

Santa Clara based Hadoop Users/Enthusiasts group, focused on sharing experiences/challenges.

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 …

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 …

This group is for everyone interested in real-time access to big data. We welcome developers, data scientists, analysts - everyone trying to figure out how to get access - and analysis - quickly; data in HDFS, S3, NoSQL databases, etc. Why did I form this group? There are a number of interesting Open Source and proprietary solutions trying to provide real-time access to Big Data and a high density of folks here in the Bay Area working on solutions. Industry analysts are saying "this is the year …

"Data Hacker" means any developer, data scientist, data architect, entrepreneur, engineer, or data nerd who is interested in discovering - meeting people interested in - and joining hackathons focused on - new open-source data-centric programming languages and technologies such as Hadoop, Hbase, Hive, Pig, Drill, Mahoot, Lucene, MongoDB, Graph Databases like Neo4J.... pretty much any developer-centric data technology. Data Hackers is a meetup group run by Data 2.0 (data2x.com) that hosts meetups …