Twitter New York welcomes software engineers and technologists who are interested in learning about our engineering projects and initiatives. While we have made great progress, there are lots of massive technical challenges to solve. With millions of  active users on Twitter, we're always working on ways to scale our products and play with massive amounts of realtime data. Our New York based engineering teams own the Discover tab, working on new approaches to search quality and building highly s …

Join the local New York City forum for the Volumetric Society ( http://volumetric.org ) an eclectic group of innovators exploring the arts & sciences of a new world of natural user interfaces between body, brain, and spatially aware computing for the physical world.  Come exchange ideas, demo your projects, or just get exposed to the volumetric future that devices such as Kinect, Emotiv/MindWare, volumetric 3D displays and cameras and telematic interfaces are taking us. Everyone is welcome - fro …

NY Graph is a place for people to learn about and discuss graph structures, graph theory, graph databases and related topics. We host technical presentations and lectures, product demos, lightning talks, seminars, town hall-style open forums and hands-on tutorials, in addition to less-structured monthly gatherings. Why graphs? Why now? Graph structures and methods are being used everywhere. As the size of datasets being generated, processed, and presented continues to grow, the relative strengt …

This is a meetup for life-long learners interested in Open Course Ware (OCW) -- free academic resources provided by major universities like MIT, Harvard and Cornell. Meetups will include study groups, lectures, OCW video screenings, and more.

The hype surrounding Big Data and Data Science is at a fever pitch with promises to solve the world's business and social problems, large and small. How accurate or misleading is this message? How is it helping or damaging people, and which people? What opportunities exist for data nerds and entrepreneurs that examine the larger issues with a skeptical view? This Meetup focuses on mathematical, ethical, and business aspects of data from a skeptical perspective. Guest speakers will discuss the mi …

A group of professionals using the Python programming language in quantitative applications (algorithms, visualization, number crunching, statistics) in the New York metro area.

Gathering of people interested in search, discovery, analytics, and the related fields -- information gathering, extraction, and retrieval, natural language processing, text analytics, data mining, sentiment detection, named entity recognition, visualizations. Talks about Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, Lucene, and other search tools.

NYC's data science community is full of brilliant, incredibly talented people. We started this group to create a central location to showcase the amazing work New York's data scientists are doing and help awesome people meet one another. This meetup aims to serve the technical community—data scientists, software engineers, hackers, and statisticians. Our events will vary from introductory to advanced, but are always intended to provide new ideas, concepts and tools to help you solve your hardest …

researchers often fail to allocate enough upfront time for surveying a problem domain and getting a sense for the current state of the field as a whole. what are the most pressing questions in the community at the moment? what are the latest publicly available data sets? how to ensure that one's work will, in fact, uniquely contribute to the literature and be useful to the community as a whole? rather than organize more meetings where researchers present their particular work in granular detail …

This is the meeting site for the Connecticut R user group. R is an open source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.

The most active robotics group in NYC. Discuss, collaborate, and build all sorts of robots with other enthusiasts.

High Tech meetup is for Entrepreneurs and inventors who are working on cutting edge technology. This is not a meetup for just web or another exercise app. It is geared at high tech startups involved in non standard and potentially revolutionary ideas and products. Granted, everyone thinks what they make falls into that category.As an example this meetup is for people involved in material modeling, robotics, machine learning, mobile apps that are deeper than a server+table/map UI. You got the pic …

The NY AdTech meetup puts on next generation advertising technology focused meetup events for buy-side and sell-side advertising technologists working at the nexus of advertising, technology, data, new media, and innovation. The meetup focuses on those advertising and technology innovations that are changing everything about the what and the how and even the why of advertising, advertising markets and advertising operations. Among the topics on the agenda for this meetup are ad exchanges, behavi …

A group to discuss digital user experience (UX) both on web and mobile platforms. Meetings could cover research or innovative real world examples & case studies Design topics can include (but not limited to) interaction design, UI design, mobile app design (iPhone, iPad, Android), usability, site stickiness, human-computer interaction, value of entertainment factor beyond core conversions, etc. From the data side of things we'd like to have discussions around using data to drive and measure UX …

This group is open to all folks interested Python/PyData, and related tools like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and IPython. Send us a note if you'd like to host or present at one of our meetups.

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …

There are tools that can effect both emotions and habits. Like brain mapping you will learn to capture your specific unique mind, measure effects and form wanted habits, thoughts and emotions. Place the palm of your hand on your forehead. You are now centimeters form your frontal and prefrontal cortex. This is only one brain system out of the many that produce your unique personality and habits profile. We will take abstract concepts and transform them through the knowledge of neural science and …

This group is for any beginner who wants to learn Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign. No prior experience is necessary, just come with your laptop and a trial version of the program on your machine. You will not only learn the programs but you will also learn the principals behind good Graphic and Digital Design, learn to "talk the talk", understand what works and what doesn't, and start designing pieces on your own. After you start working on your own, we'll have some workshop meetups gea …

Success Circles is a community of empowered individuals who are playing a big game in life. Our aim for this group is support each other to be highly effective and have fun without compromising our values. Success Circles is uniquely designed knowing the challenges most entrepreneurs and job seekers are facing; staying engaged toward their goals, avoiding distractions, while not having the structures that a corporate environment might have provided. At our monthly meetings, you will be exp …