A series of fortnightly lunchtime talks for anyone interested in data science: the intersection of  statistics, machine learning, analytics, data-based  programming, and all that good stuff. The bright and shiny things that interest us here at Dragonfly Science.

A group for people in Wellington who are interested in storing, querying, transforming, analysing and presenting data. We aim to take a cross platform, cross language, look at topics such as: * Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase, Mongo DB, Mahoot * My SQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, Oracle * Redis, Memcached * Kafka, Flume * Hive, Pig, CQL, R * SQL * Analytics * Data Mining * Visualisation * High Availability * Monitoring * Disaster Recovery

If you're running lean product development within your organisation, then this groups for you. Come along and share your experience with Lean Startup. Learn from others in a similar situation. http://leancoffee.org/ How it works Each session will have a facilitator who will be responsible for timekeeping to ensure everything runs smoothly. The first 10 minutes will be general chit chat, during this time anyone can propose a topic by writing it on a sticky and putting it on the wall. Everyone o …