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.

This group is aimed at technology professionals who are interested in the problem of embedding Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning approaches directly into operational applications and processes that drive the business. The group is programming language and platform agnostic as we plan to open the floor to presentations by technologists working in Java, .NET, R, C++ and whatever other language makes sense. Language choice notwithstanding, the group is interested in use cases, best practi …

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 …