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 to analyse large scale data (big data) and extract knowledge from it.

We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics, Pig, data mining, machine learning, RecSys, Mahout, scalable data analytics, predictive analytics, Cascalog, heuristics, statistical computing, R language, Clojure,  Incanter, big data visualisation, mass text mining, NLP, large scale analytical paradigms, data science opportunities & challenges, data science learning & training...

We'll avoid boring, theoretical, or hard-core presentations with an aim to have interesting, amusing, practical talks showcasing data science applications and data scientists work

And we will have free beer and pizza too :-)

Just a quick note to clarify that this meetup is not about data infrastructure, database management, database administration, technical data integration, or 'traditional' business intelligence.

If you are interested in Data Science and you'd like to meet data geeks and data scientists from startups who are passionate about data science, come and join us.

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    "Great set of speakers and some interesting discussions afterwards. Promising start to the Data Science group!"

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    "So far, excellent - interesting people, and very high quality speakers"
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    "Definitely well organised. Impressive number of people there, so extra kudos for the organisation. The talks were good but a bit too abstract probably, although being the first of a series of events, that was probably a good choice."

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    "It was a great meetup and very well organized! The talks were interesting and although brief, managed to point out some very interesting insights about data science and how we understand it or rather how we should be understanding it...."

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