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.

This group is for people in London who are taking part in online classes from Coursera, Udacity and EdX.  It was originally set up for people taking Stanford's online Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class, but expanded to the Machine Learning and Database classes that ran concurrently, and has kept going with members taking all sorts of online classes. Here's our wiki for more info: https://github.com/tansaku/twss/wiki

We're a group of like-minded developers and scientists interested in Machine Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models and Natural Language Processing. In this meetup, we hope to bring together machine learning practitioners to listen to each other's work alongside running a study group focused on the Stanford courses (ml-class.org, pgm-class.org and nlp-class.org).

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.

Data Science London, the #datascience community We are a non-profit professional organisation dedicated to the free, open, dissemination of data science. We are a community of data scientists that meets regularly to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. Follow us on twitter @ds_ldn Read our blog www.datasciencelondon.com We'll have …

Data is growing in size and complexity. Increasing velocity, volume and variety of data are driving new database technologies and techniques of data analysis. NOSQL databases are becoming more popular and widely accepted. This is leading to a disruption in the database market and a fragmentation of database solutions. At DeNormalised we want to bring together people who are interested in keeping up to date with the evolving landscape of data persistance and analysis. Our meetups will consist of …

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.

Welcome to the meetup around anything a Apache Hive. Hive is a powerful tool to explore and process big data quickly and easily. It can be an important building block in a data pipeline and data analysis. We are interested in anything related to Hive including Hadoop, cloud computing, testing, development processes, best practices, use cases, data analysis, data processing, data cleaning, NoSQL, SQL, HiveQL, denormalization, map-reduce, big data, and more. Join and contact us if you want to pres …

Want to dance? Dance to Feel Free. Dance your way, any style, any moves! Out of the living room and into the fire! Excellent fitness, Learn new moves, Sociable hours Meet fun new people All experience levels welcome to join. Pop, Trance, Dub step, Bhangra, Rihanna, Florence and the machines, Foo fighters, Abba or you choose, email me a song title you want to dance to for the following weeks session. We make the most of it, start with some real muscle twitcher and end with a bang. Introductary of …

There's a growing interest in media and publishing around data, machine learning and the techniques from functional programming. The aim of this meetup is to share experiences, exchange techniques and ideas via short talks and presentations. It's aimed at developers and managers in the publishing and media industry, and anyone interested in the application of data, machine learning and functional programming. Are you in?

The Bill Hicks Ride gives anybody and everybody the opportunity to partake in whatever venture takes our fancy and flies with it. We plan seasonal events, for those living, visiting, breathing London, on both sides of the river, with the occasional getaway outside the city limits !! We are a unique & eclectic crowd touching on activities and topics encompassing the macro and the microcosm. We find that enjoying life is not just a priority, but mandatory, so follow the bubbles and join in the fun …

This group is for women who love data; big or small. Whether you work in data or want to know what the fuss is all about. Let's get together to share experiences, learn and shout about our achievements. The group format will be directed by the needs of it's members. At whatever stage of your career and whatever your specialty be it a Statistician, Developer, Visualizer, Journalist or a little of everything we hope to have a place for everyone to develop. We hope to get women working on interesti …

Open to all interested in PyData, NumPy, SciPy, etc

We are a community of data scientists, technologists and analyts that work with data. This is a new meetup that aims to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics, distributed data analytics, Pig, Hive, data mining, machine learning, scalable data analytics, predict …

DataScienceLab - A meetup for data scientists, or those interested in data science (hacking data) to come together to build an output focussed community directed towards the practical aspects or the doing of data science. The primary focus of this group will be on doing good with data science through hackathons and other data hacking projects & events arranged in association with organisations actively involved in the making our world into a better place; charities, NGOs etc. Meetup schedule wil …

London’s Artificial Intelligence Futurists This is a group for anyone interested in, or even wants to shape, the future. In particular we are focusing on the development and the impact of Artificial (General) Intelligence (AGI), Human Level Human Level Machine Intelligence (HLMI), Machine Learning, Robotics, Personal Robots, Intelligent Agents, Semantic Networks, theories about Human Intelligence, etc. The acceleration of technology provides more and more possibilities to achieve HLMI. According …

A warm welcome to Big Data / Data Science / Data Analytics Jobs! With Data growing at such an exponential rate, organisations are flocking to find solutions of how to manage their Critical Data. This has created a new breed of expertise that is in somewhat short supply. This group aims to bring together a community with a common interest in analysing, understanding and monetising Big Data, create opportunities for those who are able to do so and solve a few problems for Organisations’ who are no …

Are you interested in Twitter's open source distributed realtime computation framework "Storm" & based in London? Then this meetup is for you. We get together to share use cases, experiences and tips on how to use this framework. "Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation." Project GitHub Group photo courtesy of Paul Bica

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 Reading Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Reading to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

Calling all data do-gooders: DataKind UK is a meetup for the United Kingdom chapter of DataKind, a community of data scientists and non-profits working together to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity. DataKind encourages local meetups to share ideas, collaborate across communities, discuss new tools and practices, and help bring about a better world through data for social causes. Come hang out with other conscientious dataists and tech-savvy social innovators …

Do you like to sew? Would you like to spend some time with others to share ideas/tips and learn new techniques? Let's get together and share some of our talent and ideas within a relaxed and informal group environment. Maybe you've never switched on a sewing machine before, or you've always made your own clothes, you're addicted to quilting, or you've been sewing for over 40 years, or if you sew by hand and don't want to use a machine... whatever skill or stage you're at this group welcomes all …