Greetings! I've started this group in the hopes of finding others who are interested in taking data - from surveys, clickstreams, and other sources - and turning it into stories. Looking for people who are interested in seeking and sharing knowledge related to data visualization, tools like Illustrator, PowerPoint, Keynote, and Prezi, and platforms such as Visual.ly and Tableau.

This is group which gathers to discuss topics in machine learning. This could be classification, clustering, neural networks, loss functions, graphical algorithms, information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence, search, game theory, computational learning theory, reinforcement learning, collaborative filtering, recommendation systems, bioinformatics, or really anything having to do with large scale data analysis and prediction. The usual format is to select a topic and/or paper for …

Open to all local folks interested in Cassandra, Big Data, Scalability, NoSQL, etc

Meeting to share ways to address rising costs and gain more control, ways to improve efficiencies and simplify processes in eDiscovery. Who should join: General Counsel, Chief Legal Officers, Chief Information Officers, Litigation Support.

The Los Angeles Quantified Self Meetup is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup and the Quantified Self blog. 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 digitize and track information, from how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data and statistics. More specific topics include: * self …

Do you invest in real estate or business opportunities? Are you seeking investors for your real estate or business opportunity? If you answered "Yes" to either of these then this Meetup group is for you! This meeting was created to unite investors in an informal, roundtable setting to discuss the latest economic trends and to exchange thoughts and information about what is happening in today's markets. I bring the latest monthly economic data as it relates to real estate, inflation/deflation, th …

… Please do not use group to data mine or promote your work events. This community is based primarily on friendship and interests. It is encouraged to hand out business cards.    The Oh-So-Fabulous Standards of Conduct: Recommended that you are over 18, okay physical health, must know your own physical limitations. Each member and their guests are solely responsible for safety, loss of property, transportation, and any expenses accrued at events. Must disclose if you are leader of anoth …

This is a group for Splunk users in the LA and SoCal region to meet up and talk about how they're using Splunk and learn a thing or two from each other to expand their knowledge. I'll be able to bring you a glimpse into what Splunk's eng team is working and maybe even give you a demo or two.

This is a face-to-face version of the online LinkedIn group (see http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1895501). This group is dedicated to all such researchers and analysts who are interested in innovative research methods and analytics, as well as related software tools. It is a forum for researchers, analysts and practitioners to discuss about research methodology, research computing, research applications, research flow management, and research process standardization. It is also a place …

We created this group to give like minded individuals a place where they can get together to discuss web analytics. The purpose of this group is to meet other web masters and learn from each other. Join this group if you are interested in learning from and meeting different web analytics professionals in Los Angeles.

This group is for early stage Start ups looking to find Co-Founders, funding, pitch ideas and most importantly help bring a tech identity to Downtown LA. Right now there is a huge trend on the westside for the tech startup community, leaving a huge void in Downtown LA. Our objective is to have various events including workshops on best practices, hackathons, entrepreneur/investors panels, demo days and open forums with a focus on the tech community. This group is for coders, entrepreneurs, inves …

A group dedicated to the web hosting industry in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. We will discuss topics pertaining to different hosting platforms, security, server hardware, take tours of data centers, hosting companies and meet with each other for happy hours on occasion. This group is dedicated to bringing together those who work within the hosting industry in Los Angeles and those who are interested in learning more about web hosting.

The Los Angeles Puppet Master User Group is a Meetup to share knowledge and experiance using Puppet. Puppet is a systems management platform developed by Puppet Labs. Anyone interested in Puppet and systems configuration should join.

Meet other locals who are interested in EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), the computer to computer exchange of business documents over phone lines, via VAN or directly, and using the Internet. Discuss EDI translation software, implementation schemes, bar coding, label printing, automation, mapping problems, web based EDI, AS/2, VANS, EDI chargebacks and other issues revolving around EDI and the use and growth of your company's EDI environment. If you are a manufacturer or distributor, and …

For ALL types of Entrepreneurs...this group is sponsored by Holdon Log/PerformerTrack hence the images. Please no Multi-Level Marketing Companies...you should be in charge of designing your marketing materials, promoting your business growing your data base, etc. We do reach a large amount of Entertainment Industry Professionals (25K plus), so if you'd like to run a Deal on http://www.IndustryDeal.com (there's no cost on the upfront) then go here for more info: http://holdonlog.com/pages/id-home …

Meet other local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL, and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web.