We will be meeting monthly to: hear talks on R-related topics sharing knowledge and experience provide R beginners with an opportunity to meet more experienced users discover the power of R as a serious, general and industrial strength data mining, analysis, visualisation and reporting tool, for use in commerce, government and other fields see case studies of real-life R applications in industry disocover related commodity, open source and free tools meet experts in specific R packages, …

SMAQ (Storage, MapReduce and Query) is an emerging architecture pattern pioneered by organisations such as Google, Powerset, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others to handle massive quantities of globally distributed data effectively and scaleably. We're a group of systems engineers and data scientists who are solving the challenges of building the highly scalable software systems that enable "big data" and the next generation of business intelligence. We've had speakers from IBM, Google, …

A place for analyst and Tableau users to get together, show their work, learn new tricks, network and talk business intelligence and data visualisation with fellow data geeks.

Just an informal gathering of TM1 Professionals from around Sydney. The purpose is simply to meet & greet, We'll look at having presentations etc in the future but for the moment we'll simply get together and have a few drinks and a few laughs. Feel free to tag along if you've been in this space for a while and are looking to network and meet others in a similar position to you. The more the merrier! No Recruiters Please!

Architects, Developers, Consultants and Administrators are all welcome to share experience, have questions answered and have a coffee with some of Sydney's Salesforce fraternity. 100% technical networking over a coffee.

This group is an inclusive, volunteer-driven, non-profit, vendor-neutral, unbiased and sales-pitch free community of those interesting in the IBM Information Server toolset.  We sustain the group through community interest and participation. If you profile, map, extract, transform, load, slice, secure, archive, or govern data with IBM's Information Server tools (or run a team who does), this is the official meetup group in Sydney. We're enthusiasts for Information Server, the people who use it, …

Agile development processes and techniques in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence are leading to vast cost and time saving in many DW and BI projects. Come and join our group to learn and to share your Agile DW and BI experiences.

What is Data Vault, and why should we be interested in it?? Data Vault is a new generation Data Warehouse Database Modeling Method (akin to Inmon and Kimball modeling methods) that is designed to provide historical storage of data coming in from multiple operational systems, for building large scale, industry strength, rapidly evolving DW / BI systems. Designed by Dan Linstedt, Data Vault's Hub and Satellite Architecture specifically caters for todays complex Data Management needs, focussing on …

Sydney BI Social (SYBIS) group is a new event for the Sydney business intelligence community. Organised by Iman Eftekhari and James Beresford, this event will be held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. The aim of this group is to provide an opportunity for BI professionals to network, share ideas and experiences, have a beer or two, have some fun and make some new friends. The format will be simple: topics will be suggested prior to the event and will be used to initiate discussions. We will tr …