We are the Hadoop users group for the UK based in London. We meet monthly for talks and discussion on all topics related to Hadoop. Join if your intrested in learning what Hadoop is, how people are using it with their big data problems, and to meet other people with experience running and coding on Hadoop cluster around London and the UK.

Welcome to Big Data London - Europe's biggest Big Data community. Big Data London brings together people working on Big Data projects. If you're using Hadoop, Apache Cassandra or any other NoSQL related technology, if you're involved with web apps, enterprise apps, data analytics, financial apps or storage at massive scale, or simply want to learn more about the space, then you'll find something interesting here. So come and join us.

BACON bits is a series of monthly meetups to continue the discussions started at BACON conference. We'll be inviting some more awesome speakers from the tech and non tech world to explore more things developers love.

The aim of this group is to build a network of people interested in recommender systems and give them a forum for presenting and discussing ideas. We are a mixed group of people from research, industry, education, design and startups. If you have an interest in recommender systems, come and join us.  

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… The Natural Evolution from pick-up (PUA) The term PUA stands for 'Pick-Up-Artist' - do not be fooled by this money making machine. PUA is old school; the 'Mystery method' style of game is outdated too. It taught guys to be robots and go from A1 to B2 to D4(!) to suggest you needed to take strategic steps to seducing a girl! If for any reason, things did not transition as you had planned, then your brain short-circuits and you freeze up! If you take this linear approach then you can never be yo …

This group is for wannabe fashion designers who want to learn how to sew, make and customise clothes.  You will learn the basics of fashion design from drawing your design to then making your design using a sewing machine. You can learn so much in just a few hours so why not join up to have fun with fashion and learn a new skills, meet new friends, attend fashion events and exhibitions, take part in competitions, learn how to sell your fashion collection and so much more...  

"Wisdom 2.0 is, quite possibly, the most important gathering of our times." - Rich Fernandez, Ph.D., Director of Executive Development, Google   "Wisdom 2.0 has catalyzed the next wave of what is happening in Silicon Valley, this wave of awareness. People are realizing, 'I have optimized my machines, my software...' yet we are beginning to realize that no matter how great a technological device we buy or how great our network is, the real source of potential is in ourselves."  - Chris Sacca, …