Business Intelligence (BI) is the exciting new discipline of skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making in every organization. The Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for discussing advances in BI. Talks range from industry and process trends, through the software tools that enable BI to best practices and issues that arise from their application. Our mission is to create a community of Business Intelligence professionals …

This is a group for people in the Bay Area who are interested in Natural Language Processing. Since NLP overlaps with other fields, we may also delve into Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. If you are actively involved in NLP, or just want to learn more, please join us. Note: This group has nothing to do with Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

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 portfolio. 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 …