EdgeSpring is a San Mateo based Kleiner-Perkins & Lightspeed Startup in the business intelligence and analytics space. This group was formed as a forum for fostering community by bringing together companies that are using the technology as well as those interested in learning more. Join this group if you are interested in innovative business intelligence technology, data visualization, big data, and more. Join if you are a business analyst or a business user of BI and want to find new an innovat …

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/

This group is dedicated to organizing discussions, meetups, and events around data 2.0. The focus of data 2.0 is about utilizing the new avalanche of online data and new data-centric business models. The Data 2.0 organizers are also the producers of DataWeek.co Sept 22-27 in San Francisco as well as the Data 2.0 Summit (data2summit.com) We view "Old Data" is the practice of closing off your data, and data 2.0 hosting data online and making it accessible by other organizations. That includes big …

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 …

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. R has an estimated one million users worldwide, and its user base is growing. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its comp …

Salesforce.com Integration & Analytics is a San Francisco meetup for Salesforce.com users, administrators, Force.com developers, sales and marketing professionals, and others interested in extending the Salesforce platform. Topics will include: data integration dashboards analytics reporting sales force automation (SFA) marketing optimization using 3rd party data integrated into Salesforce business intelligence (BI) and more This meetup is not an official Salesforce.com event, but we are all …

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area 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.

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 …

Calling all Quants, Analysts, Business Intelligence Gurus, Stats folks, and other lovers of using data to power decision making. We'll meet once a month in a casual environment to talk about business, customer, web, and marketing models that drive profitability. Also, we'll take field trips to local area businesses, non-profits, and educational organizations to learn and share our experiences. Let's take analysts out of the closet and help drive better data driven decisions for all. Checkout my …

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 …

It's the first Big Data blowout of its kind. And we want you to join fellow Big Data dreamers and doers as we celebrate FreeStructure 2013. This three-day festival @ the Moscone Center in San Francisco July 16-18 brings together some of the world's most "datacated" Big Data, data science and business intelligence communities. It's where celebration mixes with collaboration to spotlight, connect and inspire the people and programs that are impacted by Big Data. FreeStructure 2013 features keynote …

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!

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

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 …

Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. You will hear use cases, customer successes and thought leadership discussions on emerging applications and use cases - and the supporting platforms and technologies that enable them. Collaborate with peers working to solve truly complex, technical issues while betting their business on an infrastructure with 100% uptime. Find Us: http://www.aerospike.com Follow Us: http …

Are you an Indian woman who runs her own business or service? Do you have your own company/consultancy/salon/business/blog? We welcome you to our group! We are a bunch of active, social and intelligent businesswomen who have come together for networking, forming friendships, colleague bonding experience, sharing the highs and lows in the day of a businesswomen and helping each other succeed in their fields. Additionally, we will also have business talks, brainstorming sessions, discussions about …

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

How mindful are you? Do you remember people's names when you meet them? Do you remember where you parked your car, your house keys? Are you able to learn, listen, read, think quickly? Do you know the law of attraction? Are you your own life's master? Are you someone who gathers insight directly from the universe? Let me introduce myself, I am Aditya Mittal, and I am the author of 'Let Your Mind See'. I have studied at Stanford, worked at NASA and as Business Intelligence Data team lead at a mobi …

Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) is a web organization dedicated to providing web builders with useful and informative resources. We promote technological innovations and address technical challenges facing the web community. SVWB invites expert speakers to address important and critical aspects of launching, building and growing successful websites, web applications and web-based businesses. SVWB efforts cover every aspect of web building including user experience design, information architec …

Bigdata applications platform on cloud like Datameer, Karmasphere, Hadapt, Kitenga and others are providing a bog opportunity for developers with Bigdata expereince to build applications on top of same using Hadoop distribution platform like Cloudera, MapR and Hortonworks among others. SAP HANA provides a In-memomry Computing and Analytics platform that can be used to provide ondemand, realtime predictive analytics applications on Finance, Healthcare, public sector and others. lets use the foru …

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 …

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.

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 …

Hive is a scalable data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop. It provides tools to enable easy data ETL, a mechanism to put structures on the data, and the capability to querying and analysis of large data sets stored in Hadoop files. Hive defines a simple SQL-like query language, called HiveQL, that enables users familiar with SQL to query the data. At the same time, this language also allows programmers who are familiar with the MapReduce fromwork to be able to plug in their custom …

The San Francisco Bay Area Tableau Community with John Abdo as the lead organizer is dedicated to serving the needs of Tableau Users in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This data visualization meetup is organized every month by Visual.ly. Our purpose is to bring together all people interested, involved and passionate about data visualization. We're starting in SF and will bring it to other cities soon! Anyone interested in data visualization should join.

Database Meets Solid State, a Silicon Valley based community group, provides a meeting point for people interested in the intersection of flash memory and database acceleration. Use cases include: Cloud computing, Big Data, Virtualization, and Analytics. Our mission: Bring together people interested in learning, presenting, and networking with others about improving their database performance and how solid state storage makes that happen. Host for our first meeting is Skyera.  We plan to have re …

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 …