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 …

Real Life Super Heroes, Masked Crime Fighters, Costumed Vigilantes, & Uniformed Mystery Detectives meet to share case files, organize citizen patrols, review investigations, analyze crime statistics, discuss law enforcement support, teach new techniques, tell success stories, plan charitable and educational events, send inspiring messages, and learn about resources for solving cases. Whether fighting crime, solving cold cases, researching records, or otherwise, this group is a support team for t …

Join this small group for a step-by-step approach to learn the R language. Each session is filled with real-life examples and participants are welcome to suggest and present topics. If you have just started with R this is the perfect chance to find out about data analysis with a group of people rather than on your own.

Cloud Slam and UP is developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in cloud computing, looking at core process and strategies in the rapidly shifting world. We create thought provoking conference panels, workshops, and tutorials which are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud.

In the 21st Century successful teams are data-driven. This monthly meetup provides a forum for monitoring geeks to gather and trade new ideas, data, and war stories. If you love data, this meetup is for you!

San Francisco PyData is a group for data nerds who use Python and the available libraries: Matplotlib, NumPy, Pandas, NetworkX, etc.

Our goal is to make R more popular especially among women. Inspired by the awesome PyLadies group, I decided to create R-ladies. Anyone with an interest in R is encouraged to participate. It doesn't matter if you never used R or if you are an R expert. The goal is to promote R, exchange knowledge and create a network among women. Come and join us! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About R: R is a langua …

The Quantified Self North Bay Meetup Group is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup and the Quantified Self blog. Based in California's stunning North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area and encompassing Marin, Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties, it is a regular show and tell for people who are tracking data about their body and conducting their own personal investigations and research into their bodies, minds, and selves. Anything is game -- from personal genetics to ways to digit …

This group is for Alumni and current students of Northwestern University's Master of Predictive Analytics program who live or work in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to get together to discuss the MSPA program and issues related to predictive analytics.

Group for anyone using Apache Hadoop and wanting to be productive with data analysis. In particular with Hue, a Web application providing access to MapReduce, Hive, HDFS, Oozie, Impala, Pig, Sqoop2. Also interested in hearing about use cases, pain-points... about using Hadoop and how the end user experience could be improved. Hue open source project: http://gethue.com

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 …

This is a group for anyone interested in big data technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analysis, data visualization, etc. All skills levels are welcome. I have started this group for big data professionals to network and learn the latest in the big data technology. Looking forward to having lively discussions about the cutting edge big data technology and its impact on the business world.

This group is for those interested in the power of social media and web analytics. We will be discussing best practices and challenges faced when managing the vast amount of data now available.

We're a group of folk broadly interested in the application of data science and sustainability, discussing questions like: what data feeds can improve supply chain sustainability? what algorithms should be applied to water conservation? what challenges of scale lie behind automated energy efficiency? what can be learnt from quantitative finance, search, and other related fields? We meet on the first Thursday of every month at EcoFactor's offices in Redwood City.

Occupy Data is a subgroup of Occupy Research, with the aim of analyzing and visualizing datasets related to the Occupy movement. We mainly organize hackathons, where teams of people worked on separate projects, with the goal of using free and open source tools to generate visualizations and other resources pertinent to the Occupy movement and the issues it has raised. Read more about previous projects, get inspired about what you might like to work on occupydatanyc.org or occupyresearch.net.