So What is Data Science? Why do we need Data Science? And What does a Data Scientist do? In this meetup we will discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive and actionable insight, generate business value from data, and exploit business opportunities from data products. We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics, distributed data analytics, Pig, data mining, machine learn …
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 …
About Londata: We created Londata to provide a space where people intresetd in the commercial opportunities presented by data to come together, listen to a great speaker or two and share war stories. Our aim is to make our attendees and their companies even more successful. If you want to follow us @londataevent the hash tag is #londataevent
We currently creat or replicate about 1.8 zettabytes (ZB) of data. Just a few years ago, we hadn’t even invented the word zettabyte. Every day we send approximately 300 billion e-mails and share one billion items on Facebook; every minute we post 170,000 tweets to Twitter. The BigData debate and networking event is the final event in London following a week of BigData conferences and senimars. It will be run as a seriouse but informal debate format and provide an exceptional oportunity to networ …
… Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Self-experimentation * Behavior monitoring * Lifelogging, lifecaching, lifestreaming * Location tracking * Digitizing body info * Biometric data * Psychological self-assessments * Medical self-diagnostics * Personal genome sequencing
The Quantified Self blog: http://www.quantifiedself.org Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/quantifiedsel
f Boston Quantified Self Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/bostonQS
The QS Ning site: http://quantifi …
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