We are a community of data scientists, technologists and analyts that work with data. This is a new meetup that aims to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics, distributed data analytics, Pig, Hive, data mining, machine learning, scalable data analytics, predict …

Learn how to code. Want to know what programming and computer science are all about? Then look no further! We will do a bit of everything: web design, data visualization, front- and backend development, and much more! So...if you are hoping to learn new skills, get creative, or just try something different, then sign up now and get involved!

The purpose of this group is to bring together people who have a passion for technology in education. Are you interested in programming, computer science, IT, or just integrating great technology into the classroom? Come and join us for monthly activities to learn from each other and develop new ideas! Feel free to suggest ideas for great events happening in London or around the UK.

A group for the application of cutting-edge HPC & GPU supercomputing technology to cutting-edge business problems. With an emphasis on the useful application of supercomputing by practitioners, for practitioners. Note: We have a sister groups that meet in New York, Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley, Paris, Seattle, Washington DC, Tokyo, Australia, India, and elsewhere.

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the AWS cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications. Meetup presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: User case studies and lessons learned Getting started with CloudSearch Ranking and relevance tuning Working with other AWS services This gr …

Welcome to the Wellingborough and Kettering Over 40’s Social Group. Although we welcome members from all areas, this group has been created for the benefit of people in their 40s and over, based in the Wellingborough, Kettering and surrounding areas who would like to get out a bit more to socialise with like-minded people who either do not drive or prefer to attend more local events. This group welcomes both men and women regardless of their marital status or background.  Although we would stres …

Welcome to this social group and online Calendar covering North Hampshire (Hook/Basingstoke/Fleet/Petersfield and south Reading inc Wokingham. Members generally prefer or are curious about exploring more natural approaches to improve their overall wellbeing and life balance.  There are ongoing events, drop-in classes, positive and empowering workshops that combat stress, negative thinking, serious illness and transition, depression, bereavement, insomnia, infertility, eating disorders or other s …

There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. This group is for people who are the 1. We are a new, friendly, group for programmers, designers, engineers, digital artists and anyone else with an interested in technology and computers.

Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore and debate the latest ideas in science and technology.  Meetings have taken place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context. The Basingstoke Café Scientifique meets once a month on a Monday evening from 7.30pm. You are welcome to arrive at the meeting venue any time from 7.00pm onwards for drinks before the talk which lasts 30 …

Clear Books provides online accounting for small businesses. We make accounting easy, straight forward and as pain free as possible with our clear and simple software. We do more than that though ... we also host an awesome network of small businesses from various industries! The Clear Books community is made up of our inspiring customer base who are looking to connect with like minded entrepreneurs and businesses! You don't have to be a Clear Books customer to come along to this event as this e …

This group is for people who want to meet up in and around Finchley, north London, in order to write. Meetings can be any time - weekday day-time, weekday evening, or weekend. We will meet in local cafes or other venues and see which locations work best for us. The main aim is to get some writing done, and therefore get closer to getting published (if we're not published yet) or getting our current project completed (if we are already published). But additional aims are to meet fellow writers wh …

"If you have yet to experience the Magic of a Gong Bath - you are in for a very special festive treat!" Aiden Mckytire, a highly accomplished gong player and gong master…. Bathing us in waves of beautiful and timeless vibrations; the Gong Bath has been likened to a mini-vacation; the powerful vibrations of the gong transport us to another level of being and place where healing naturally occurs and the stresses of everyday life are gently washed away. A gong bath is a waterless bath where the gon …

Satellite Applications Catapult will be a base for space related hackathons at the newly refurbished HQ in Didcot. We will be hosting events lasting 2 days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming: This 48-hour hackathon is to build new web and mobile services revolving around satellite data. Solutions can range from predicting natural disasters, Climate change, anything you can think of to tantalize the judges, using a wealth of satellite data. Cat …

Are you of above average intelligence? are you unique? do you like to have fun? Then this group is for you. Please don't be intimidated by these descriptions anyone who feels they are the above can join even if no one else thinks you are! Also just by having above average intelligence you will be unique in some way. Also fun here doesn't mean you like to spend your weekends clubbing and drinking all night! It means you like to joke and have a laugh, have interesting conversations and do and lear …

This group is a place for developers in the Thames Valley to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions.

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Reading Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Reading to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

This Meet Up is calling all meeting planners in Reading & London looking to meet technology suppliers that can help to increase attendee experience, ROI and improve efficiencies in your event team. The quarterly networking event offers technology suppliers the chance to showcase their technology and services to meeting planners. It works on a speed-dating format, giving suppliers the chance to pitch to selected buyers and suppliers are carefully assessed to ensure meetings are mutually benefic …

This is mostly a central clearing point for herding a bunch of degenerates into getting some exercise and drinking stuff. It's all part of a contrived social experiment, which mostly involves separating them from their computers for periods of time, then studying the effects...