This group is for professionals, thought leaders and researchers dedicated to Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, BI, Cloud Analytics, Cloud BI, Social Media Analytics, Sensor Data Analytics, Data Integration, Data Warehouse Appliances, Data Visualization, Data Management, etc. In short, this is a networking community focused on emerging technologies (Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.), and strategies that allow enterprises to leverage their data assets so they may better …

RubyMKE is a group of Ruby and Ruby on Rails enthusiasts from Milwaukee, WI and the surrounding area. Every RubyMKE meeting features something for everyone, from novice through expert. Our meetings are a place where we share our knowledge and excitement about the language and the framework, and give us a chance to meet face-to-face with others in the community.

This is an IBM sponsored Big Data meetup group.  Geared towards developers, data scientists and all Big Data enthusiasts, our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data platform. Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology.  It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills.  We provide a cloud environment …

For users of the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB.

Whether you are just curious about Functional Programming or you're an expert looking to share your knowledge, this group is for you. I'm still planning when/where we will meet and how often, but please join if you're interested and share your ideas and suggestions.

A meet-up for tech-enthusiasts and users of the BSD Unix Family of Operating Systems including Linux and Illumos. Discussions may include Project Ideas, Problems/Solutions, Implementations, &c. Based on interest, specific articles from the excellent BSD Magazine can be explored and speakers can also be scheduled to present. Ideas for location or program topics always welcome.

ChicagoRuby is a group of Ruby on Rails enthusiasts with events in downtown Chicago and in the suburbs. Monthly ChicagoRuby events are free, and the annual WindyCityRails conference attracts some of the brightest minds in software development. The ChicagoRuby Job Board matches team builders with talented developers. Check out the ChicagoRuby Videos. The ChicagoRuby motto: When smart people challenge each other to grow, great things happen!

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us! more at http://www.neo4j.org

Data 2.0 Chicago is the Midwest arm of the DataWeek.co and Data2Summit.com events in San Francisco. We host over 500 innovative data companies from Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce to MongoDB, Kaggle, and InfoChimps at our yearly conferences & summits. Topics cover big data, cloud data, NoSQL, API's and mashups, open data initiatives, and data platforms. The Data 2.0 meetup group is for entrepreneurs, data scientists, investors, engineers, database admins, data architects, and professionals in …