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SUMMARY:The Human Hack: Reinventing How We Work
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley Agile Trends and Leadership\nAgenda:\n\n6:00 PM
  - 6:30 PM - Registration and Networking\n6:30 PM - 7:15 PM - Presentation
 \n7:15 PM - 7:30 PM - Networking break\n7:30 PM - 8:15 PM - Group exercise
 s\n8:15 PM - 8:30 PM - Q&A\n8:30 PM - Adjourn\n\nPDU Info:\n\nCategory "B"
 \, 2 PDUs for PMPs and PMI-ACPs\n\nFood:\n\nThis event includes FREE food 
 and beverages!\n\nSynopsis:\n\nIn any organization or team\, there is an u
 nseen emotional undercurrent. It is fed by the many relationships between 
 team members\, leaders and customers. These unseen forces impact how we wo
 rk.\n\nCollaborating with others is not always easy. Decision-making and m
 oving forward can be a nightmare if you can’t find consensus or alignmen
 t around a common goal. You might have the brightest minds in the industry
 \, but without the ability to come together as a team\, productivity remai
 ns challenged.\n\nBeing able to shift your perspective to the human system
 s view can help you see patterns and influences that can open up more poss
 ibilities in how people collaborate\, communicate and create. This subtle 
 yet powerful paradigm shift helps you harness diversity as it shifts your 
 perspective from the many people within the organization\, to the relation
 ships between them.\n\nThis shift is a great support to Agile as it gives 
 a common language to previously nebulous dynamics and opens up possibiliti
 es to reveal/make visible and work with what is already there.\n\nBy atten
 ding this event\, you will:\n\n- Experience a shift in how you look at you
 r relationships at work\n- Go beyond Emotional and Social Intelligence to 
 a Relationship Systems Intelligence perspective\n- Learn how to see the 
 “system” influence at work in your team and relationships\n- Learn abo
 ut toxic communications\, their impact and how to avoid them\n- Have fun w
 ith the third entity and emotional field created by SV-ATL\n\nAbout the sp
 eaker - Dene Rogers:\n\nhttp://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/7/6/f
 /e/600_277470462.jpeg Dene wants to live in a world where companies recogn
 ize their employees as the most important part of their business. Let’s 
 face it – companies are made of people – not products\, processes or t
 ech infrastructure – there is an innate “humanness” to every company
  and team – let’s treat it that way.\n\nDene is a consultant\, trainer
 \, facilitator and coach who supports leaders in the Tech industry to crea
 te resilient\, high performing and collaborative teams. She helps companie
 s unlock their workforce potential by coaching leaders and teams in many d
 ifferent aspects around team identify\, dynamics and getting results suppo
 rted by positive work environments that foster healthy\, cohesive\, produc
 tive and creative teams.\n\nBefore starting her own business in 2011\, Den
 e spent 15 years working in corporate environments on cross-functional tea
 ms across the globe - including South Africa\, the UK and the United State
 s. Most recently she’s worked for PayPal and then Yahoo! supporting cros
 s-functional teams before deciding to pursue her interest in cultivating t
 he personal and professional development of up-and-coming leaders and thei
 r teams in technology.\n\nDene holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial P
 sychology and Political Science from the University of Stellenbosch\, Sout
 h Africa and is a certified Organizational Relationship Systems Coach also
  trained in the co-active coaching model.\n\nAgreement:\n\nBy RSVP to this
  event\, you agree to allow taking pictures and videos of the event includ
 ing yourself. We plan to upload these pictures and videos to this meetup a
 nd on few other social media websites.
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SUMMARY:Automate Your Work Flow - wise.io Machine Learning Tools
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley Hands On Programming Events\nwise.io provides c
 loud-based\, big-data machine learning tools. Josh Bloom and Joseph Richar
 ds (CEO and Chief Scientist of wise.io) will give background and explanati
 on of their Random Forests implementation. Jeremy Howard (President of Kag
 gle and Random Forests fan) will run through examples using wise.io tools 
 and discuss advantages of Random Forests for building predictive models.\n
 \nAttendees will get access\, time and support to exercise the tools for t
 hemselves. Food and beverages will be provided.\n\nSchedule:\n6:30 - 7:00 
 Background on wise.io tools\nJosh Bloom and Joseph Richards (CEO and Chief
  Scientist)\n7:00 - 7:30 Advantages of Random Forests and Examples\nJeremy
  Howard (President Kaggle)\n7:30 - 9:30 Support for Attendees to work on e
 xamples
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 4202/
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SUMMARY:Presentation: Clayton Weimer\, "Continuous Code Inspection with MI
 SRA-C:2012"
DESCRIPTION:Cpp Bay Area: C++ Programming In and Around Silicon Valley\nTh
 ere is a wealth of empirical evidence for the adage "prevention is worth a
  pound of cure" in software development\, especially in C programming. In 
 fact\, we have known for many years the most effective means of removing a
 nd preventing defects in systems software is through rigorous code inspect
 ion.\n\nWhat makes code inspections so effective in C programming is the f
 ormal review of each line of source code by a team of experts enforcing a 
 strict set of inspection criteria (best practices and standards) along wit
 h their own experience\, in the preventation and detection of bugs. Part o
 f these criteria is avoiding the many traps and pitfalls within the C lang
 uage that can lead to unpredictable or unwanted behavior. This is known as
  language subsetting. The most widely used C language subset is MISRA-C:20
 04\, which provides the basis of a rigorous coding standard.\n\nUnfortunat
 ely\, anyone who has developed under these strict processes knows how pain
 ful it can be. Existing coding standards and subsets (even MISRA-C:2004) c
 an be a source of frustration due to rules that are imprecisely written or
  more restrictive than necessary. But even the most well written coding st
 andards and practices gather dust on bookshelves unless there is inspectio
 n- yet inspections can be too much of a strain on key human resources too 
 early in the development process\, especially as we increasingly embrace t
 he idea development should be more agile - not burdened with heavy-weight 
 processes. For highly regulated safety critical systems\, these pains have
  been recognized to be worth the effort and MISRA-C:2004 is widely used in
  the Automobile\, Aero and Medical industries.\n\nNow\, from the many less
 ons learned over the decade there is a new MISRA standard\, which is descr
 ibed within the embedded system industry as "an indispensable resource for
  anyone who cares about software quality and is developing systems in C."\
 n\nMISRA:2012 is a complete overhaul and represents an extensive effort to
  ensure:\n\n1) Rules are more precise and do not prevent reasonable uses o
 r behaviors with no undesirable consequences.\n\n2) Rules have detailed ra
 tionale and remove rules without strong rationale - with better guidance o
 n their applicability.\n\n3) Rules are more decidable\, to allow better to
 ol enforcement and reduce the amount of manual checking\, making automatic
  code inspection a reality.\n\nThis talk will provide an overview of MISRA
 -C:2012 and the new generation of code inspection tools that automate and 
 help manage standards and processes based on it.\n\nClayton Weimer is Prog
 ramming Research's Sr. Technical Consultant in North America. He has 30 ye
 ars of experience in software development including advancement of develop
 ment tools and practices at GTE\, TRW\, and AT&T where he received publica
 tion and presentation awards in the areas of object-oriented design\, conf
 iguration management and design tools and techniques. He also did early pi
 oneering work on embedded wireless solutions and tablet computers at sever
 al startup companies. Before joining Programming Research in 2009\, he con
 tinued his work in wireless mobile technology as a technical consultant an
 d expert legal consultant in software patent and antitrust litigation. Cla
 yton received his BSc degree in Computer Science in 1985 from California S
 tate University\, Dominguez Hills during which time he worked as a program
 mer for Beckman Instruments developing it’s first small hospital laborat
 ory management system where he gained his full education and appreciation 
 of software engineering working with a team of seasoned IBM software consu
 ltants.
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SUMMARY:Data Science 201
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley Hands On Programming Events\nData Science 201\n
 \nInstructor: Dr. Michael Bowles\n\nOverview of the Course\n\nData Science
  201 begins with ordinary least squares regression and extends this basic 
 tool in a number of directions. We'll consider various regularization appr
 oaches. We'll introduce logistic regression and we'll learn how to code ca
 tegorical inputs and outputs. We'll look at feature space expansions for h
 andling non-linearities. Next we'll go through modern high-speed algorithm
 s for training these models on very large data sets(LARS\, Glmnet).\n\nTex
 t: "The Elements of Statistical Learning - Data Mining\, Inference\, and P
 rediction" by Trevor Hastie\, Robert Tibshirani\, and Jerome Friedman\n\nS
 ee also Prof Robert Tibshirani's notes for stats 315a: http://www-stat.sta
 nford.edu/~tibs/stat315a.html\n\nPrerequisites\n\nData Science 201 and 202
  employ beginner-level probability\, calculus and linear algebra (e.g. pre
 ruse the appendices in "Introduction to Data Mining" by Tan et. al. or Lin
 ear Algebra\, and Probability Theory.) If you have taken intro Data Scienc
 e or Machine Learning classes\, you are well prepared for this course\, bu
 t those are not required to start 201.\n\nParticipants should be familiar 
 with R or be willing to pick R up outside of class. We will hand out R-cod
 e for most of our examples\, but we won't spend time in 201 going through 
 introductory material on R. Come to the first class with R and R-Studio lo
 aded on your computer. See http://cran.r-project.org/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T220000
SUMMARY:Meet up at a local bar and trade war stories.
DESCRIPTION:SF Cyber Security\n
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130520T180000
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SUMMARY:From $0 to paying customers - Lean Startup Step by Step
DESCRIPTION:Lean Startup Circle - Silicon Valley\nCustdev\, BMC\, Personas
 \, Growth Hacking - these are all topics that you've heard about\, done or
  even taken a workshop on. But how do you put it all together?\n\nI've lea
 rnt from experience that many startups fail because they're not able to se
 e the bigger picture and prepare quickly enough for the next step.\n\nThis
  is a hands-on workshop. We’ll be running a simulated experiment where y
 ou’ll walk the path of “a founder with an idea\,” to “a founder wi
 th a viable\, profitable startup.”\n\nWHAT YOU GET:\nIf you are either t
 hinking of creating your own product\, or have started one\, you'll walk a
 way from this workshop with a map to guide you to success.\n\nSCHEDULE:\n6
 :00 - Doors open\, networking food and drinks\n6:30 - Simulation begins. I
 've got an idea!\n\nLet's lay out the ground rules. The lean principles Do
 es this idea have potential? My unique value proposition - Who's this for?
  personas and customer segments You mean they really want it? Customer int
 erviews and qualitative feedback Can I make money if it works? Market size
 \, costs and revenue streams Let's get the word out! Channels\, blogging a
 nd online presence A picture is worth a thousand words. The business model
  canvas But how can I tell if it'll work? Building MVPs and testing them o
 ut We got traction\, but will it work with more people? Surveys\, landing 
 pages and quantitative validation The manual way. Start with the concierge
  model Rinse and repeat. The build-measure-learn loop 8:00 - Simulation co
 ntinues. Let's scale the business\n\nWe got it\, not let's redo it. Rebuil
 d your product for quality Let's tell the world! Inbound marketing and gro
 wth hacking Working together. Hiring\, office or distributed\, dev teams\,
  product iterations and releases Keeping tabs on customers. CRMs\, don't b
 e a stranger. Taking payments. Don't make it hard to pay you Rinse and rep
 eat. The build-measure-learn loop 8:30 - Simulation ends.\n\nBIO:\nThe wor
 kshop will be led by Spike Morelli (@spikelab (http://www.twitter.com/spik
 elab)) - jack of many trades and pretty good at a couple.\n\nSpike most re
 cently worked at a startup acquired by Google and over the last two years 
 has run several side projects in the education space with a focus on Massi
 ve Open Online Courses. He is an engineer converted product manager and UX
  lover and has worked for 15 years in the IT industry. Despite all the sof
 tware he's dealt with he has a soft spot for crafting hard goods (especial
 ly wooden furniture) and not-so-hard goods (especially cake). He loves to 
 help entrepreneurs however he can and in general help people succeed.\n\nP
 S:\nIf you'd like to attend this\, but can't make it to the valley and wou
 ld love the event to be held in SF please let me know on twitter\, email (
 spike@leanstartupcircle.com) or drop a comment here on meetup.
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 ents/116712332/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T190000
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SUMMARY:How the Internet Transformed the Software Industry
DESCRIPTION:SF Bay ACM Chapter\nSpeaker: Tony Wasserman\n\nEvent Details\n
 \nLocation CHNAGEd TODAY\, see map\n\nDirections:\n\nUse the 1501 Page Mil
 l entrance\, at Page Mill and Peter Coutts Rd. Drive straight. Find parkin
 g after the second stop sign. The entrance is at the left corner of buildi
 ng 5.\n\nThe growth of the Internet has had a huge impact on the software 
 industry\, from the ease of creating new businesses to the processes that 
 companies use to develop\, distribute\, and support their products. Softwa
 re architectures and platforms for web applications differ significantly f
 rom traditional desktop and client-server applications\, and require a new
  generation of programming languages and development tools. Developers mak
 e extensive use of open source software\, particularly at the infrastructu
 re level of their applications. Development teams can easily use Internet-
 based tools for collaboration\, thus facilitating distributed organization
 s. Product marketing now emphasizes attracting prospective customers to th
 e company's website. Companies can release products over the Internet\, or
  provide a hosted web application\, both of which are more efficient and l
 ess expensive ways to sell their products. Companies can also support thei
 r products over the Internet through online discussion forums\, often with
  users helping one another.Ongoing advances in mobile and cloud computing\
 , styles of user interaction\, and software business models are certain to
  have a large effect\, leading to innovative new products from both new an
 d established companies.\n\nLocation CHANGEd Today\, see map\n\nSpeaker Bi
 o\n\nAnthony I. (Tony) Wasserman is a Professor of Software Management Pra
 ctice at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley (http://sv.cmu.edu/)\, and the Exe
 cutive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI)\, focus
 ed on evaluation and adoption of open source software. In 1980\, as a Prof
 essor at UC San Francisco\, he released the software for his User Software
  Engineering research project under a BSD license. Subsequently\, as CEO o
 f Interactive Development Environments (IDE)\, he incorporated some of tha
 t software in IDE's Software through Pictures multiuser modeling environme
 nt\, released in 1984\, making it among the very first commercial products
  to include open source software. After IDE\, Tony was VP of Engineering f
 or a dot-com\, and later became VP of Bluestone Software\, where Bluestone
 's open source Total-e-Mobile toolkit allowed mobile devices to connect to
  JavaEE web applications. Tony is very active in the international open so
 urce research community\, and served as General Chair of the 2009 Int'l. C
 onf. on Open Source Systems. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open S
 ource Initiative (OSI) (http://www.opensource.org/) and the Board of Advis
 ors of Open Source for America (http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/) Tony
  is a Fellow of the ACM and a Life Fellow of the IEEE for his contribution
 s to software engineering and software development environments. He receiv
 ed the 2012 Distinguished Educator Award from the IEEE's Technical Council
  on Software Engineering and the 2013 Influential Educator Award from the 
 ACM's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering. Tony has been to mor
 e than 65 countries\, including some that no longer exist\, and posts his 
 photos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_wasserman) on Flickr.\n\nLocatio
 n CHANGEd TODAY\, see map
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SUMMARY:Machine Learning Study Group
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley AI\nLogistics and discussion minutes of our stu
 dy group are at:\nhttp://collaborationtalents.wikispaces.com/Collaboration
 12\n\nThe free online class is taught by Stanford Professor Andrew Ng! It'
 s fun to complete a unit of Machine Learning (https://www.coursera.org/cou
 rse/ml) every week and collaborate among a study group.\n\nThe study group
  consists of 10 consecutive weekly meetings from 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. PS
 T. Here is the schedule:\n\nWednesday\, April 24th —Unit 1\nWednesday\, 
 May 1st —Unit 2\nWednesday\, May 8th —Unit 3\nWednesday\, May 15th —
 Unit 4\nFriday\, May 24th —Unit 5\nWednesday\, May 29th—Unit 6\nWednes
 day\, June 5th—Unit 7\nWednesday\, June 12th—Unit 8\nWednesday\, June 
 19th—Unit 9\nWednesday\, June 26th—Unit 10\n\nLet's apply machine lear
 ning to new areas together...
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 s/116162162/
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SUMMARY:Preview: Analytics for better agile testing
DESCRIPTION:South Bay Software Quality Engineering\nNerati is a San Franci
 sco based start-up building a new type of analytics tool for QA. Based on 
 over 18 months of feedback and iterative development we aim to deliver the
  information QA teams need in ways that best support their processes. We'l
 l give the group an advance tour of what we're doing and would love to hea
 r their feedback. We'll also share benchmarking data from our surveys of c
 urrent QA practice.\n\nQA leaders today are increasingly asked to deliver 
 business critical information in shortening time windows. Too often\, test
  plans and release decisions are based on assumptions and incomplete infor
 mation. Nerati's analytics ensure that the QA team (even non-developers) u
 nderstands everything that has changed in a new release\, and provides new
  types of insight to optimize manual\, automated\, and exploratory testing
 . Nerati's reporting also ensures changes don't slip through un-tested.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130514T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130514T213000
SUMMARY:"Official" BARUG May 2013 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area useR Group (R Programming Language)\nAgenda:\n6:30 PM
  - Pizza and Networking\n7:00 - Announcements\n7:05 - Lightning Talk - Sas
 hikanth Chandrasekaran: snap-analytx\n7:20 - Alex Brown: Shiny\n8:00 - Jus
 tin Hemann: CRM Models in R and Causata / R integration\n\nAbstract: snap-
 analytx\n\nHigh quality prediction algorithms are freely available in lang
 uages such as R. Yet\, predictive analytics remains confined to a few larg
 e companies in select industries and modern internet companies. We believe
  this gap exists because of a shortage of scientists and the complexities 
 involved in deploying the prediction models in a production application.\n
 \nThis talk presents a new approach - nicknamed snap-analytx - to deployin
 g prediction models written in languages such as R. Instead of developing 
 one-off custom prediction models\, R programmers can use the new platform 
 to make their prediction models available to a larger number of customers 
 by creating reusable models. The platform relieves the R programmers from 
 system issues surrounding model deployment\, data integration\, run-time s
 coring and performance monitoring while still facilitating collaboration w
 ith customers in order to tweak or extend their model.\n\nBio: Sashikanth 
 Chandrasekaran\n\nI am a software engineer currently at Great Bridge Corpo
 ration where we use consumer transaction data to predict retail trends. Pr
 eviously\, I was at Google working on dynamic search ads\, a new method of
  automatically creating search ads from a web site's content. I started my
  software career at Oracle\, where I implemented several features in the O
 racle database.\n\nAlex Brown\nAlex started with graphics on "Harvard Pres
 entation Graphics" in the 80s\, and has been using R for about 10 years as
  a magic calculator and to understand data - and share that understanding 
 with colleagues. Alex says:" Most of all I love the graphics it produces".
 \n\nAbstract for Alex's Talk\nShiny (from the makers of RStudio and the au
 thor of plyr\, ggplot2 and others) takes your R programs and techniques an
 d throws them into the intra or internet.An R veteran will show you how to
  get started\, and explain how shiny enables you and your team to share di
 scoveries\, activate analyses for interaction\, link your graphs to live d
 ata and more.\n\nAbstract: Justin's Talk\nSuppose that you are a data scie
 ntist\, and you've been asked by your boss to make the company website mor
 e personalized and relevant to visitors. You decide that the best course o
 f action is to try to predict what visitors will do\, then show content re
 lated to the prediction on the website. Causata was created to solve this 
 kind of problem\, which involves three major steps: collecting data into a
  single view of the customer\, learning from the data\, and taking action.
  A brief demo will show how Causata and R are used together. Then the focu
 s will move to customer segmentation\, creating interesting features in th
 e data\, and useful R packages.\n\nBio: Justin Hemann\nJustin Hemann is a 
 Principal Data Scientist at Causata and the primary author of the Causata 
 R package. Justin uses R to create predictive models that drive decisions 
 for customer experience management\, including web content\, offers\, and 
 emails. Justin's background includes predictive modeling around customer e
 xperience management\, marketing mix models\, aviation noise modeling\, an
 d orbit dynamics. Justin has an MS in Engineering Systems from MIT and a B
 S in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue.
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SUMMARY:"Lean + UX = Awesome... then Multiply by Agile Practices" SV-ALN A
 gile Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Hyperdrive Agile Leadership Network\n"Lean + UX = Awesome... t
 hen Multiply by Agile Practices"\n\n1. Intro to Lean + UX (and how it dove
 tails with Agile)\n\n2. Rapid sketching skills/ UX scenario sketching acti
 vity\n\n3. Unifying LeanUX and Agile Team Practices\n\nSummary:\n\nWe've a
 ll heard the words "lean startup"\, "MVP"\, "Pivot" and"UX/UI"...but what 
 do they really mean in everyday Agile teams? In this rapid-fire and fun mi
 ni-workshop\, Kate Rutter of LUXr will give a rundown on the key concepts 
 that every product team needs to know to make products that customers want
 \, need and love to buy.\n\nYou'll see a model of user experience that is 
 so simple you can draw iton a whiteboard\, then jump in and do a quick act
 ivity to visually communicate why your product matters to people. We'll wr
 ap up with a peer-sharing of our work and Q&A.\n\nMore about the hands-on 
 activity:- Purpose: Learn to quickly sketch a scenario of a customer/user 
 isa key skill in fast-moving Agile and lean teams.- Skills: Show the group
  how to draw a basic scenario in 5 minutes. Absolutely no prior experience
  is expected...this is about sketching for communication\, not for "art."-
  Application: Using their new skills and 3 simple prompts\, participants w
 ill sketchquick visual scenarios of their customer\, a moment of problem/p
 ain\, anda moment of value that their product delivers.- Wrap-Up: particip
 ants will have a simple 1-sheet that clarifiesthe core value proposition f
 or delivering a great user experience. (hint: it's not about the interface
 !). Also how LeanUX and Agile teams work together to get exponential resul
 ts.\n\nAgenda:\n\n6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Networking/ Refreshments\n\n7:00 PM - 
 7:10 PM Intro/ Annoucements\n\n7:10 PM - 8:30 PM Speaker & Learning Exerci
 ses\n\n8:30 PM - 8:40 PM Retro & Wrap Up\n\n8:40 PM - 9:00 PM Networking\n
 \nAbout Kate Rutter\, Co-founder & Principal of Luxr:\n\nKate is a strateg
 ist and designer with a talent for bringing companies and customers closer
  together through lean strategies\, inventive design and participatory pra
 ctices. Before joining LUXr\, Kate was with Adaptive Path where she specia
 lized in user research and design for complex and emerging digital systems
 . She's brought customer empathy and collaborative design practices to com
 panies such as Nokia\, Travel+Leisure Publishing\, Globo Networks\, and Gr
 eenpeace.\n\nKate speaks and leads workshops regularly at conferences and 
 universities\, including SXSW\, UX Week\, the iSchool at UC California and
  Haas School of Business.\n\nKate serves as an adviser to startups\, inclu
 ding Foodspotting\, MileSense\, and Pickie. She serves as a mentor at Star
 tup Monthly.
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SUMMARY:Data Science 201
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley Hands On Programming Events\nData Science 201\n
 \nInstructor: Dr. Michael Bowles\n\nThe class will meet for 4 Saturday mor
 nings. Registration covers all 4 meetings. Early registration is $325. Las
 t minute registration is $375. Pre-register on eventbrite.com. http://data
 science201.eventbrite.com You can also register at the first class meeting
  (check or cash).\n\nOverview of the Course\n\nData Science 201 begins wit
 h ordinary least squares regression and extends this basic tool in a numbe
 r of directions. You'll learn various regularization approaches. You'll le
 arn about logistic regression and how to code categorical inputs and outpu
 ts. You'll learn how to use feature space expansions for handling non-line
 arities. Next we'll go through modern high-speed algorithms for training t
 hese models on very large data sets(LARS\, Glmnet).\n\nText: "The Elements
  of Statistical Learning - Data Mining\, Inference\, and Prediction" by Tr
 evor Hastie\, Robert Tibshirani\, and Jerome Friedman\n\nSee also Prof Rob
 ert Tibshirani's notes for stats 315a: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/
 stat315a.html\n\nPrerequisites\n\nData Science 201 and 202 employ beginner
 -level probability\, calculus and linear algebra (e.g. preruse the appendi
 ces in "Introduction to Data Mining" by Tan et. al. or Linear Algebra\, an
 d Probability Theory.) If you have taken intro Data Science or Machine Lea
 rning classes\, you are well prepared for this course\, but those are not 
 required to start 201.\n\nParticipants should be familiar with R or be wil
 ling to pick R up outside of class. We will hand out R-code for most of ou
 r examples\, but we won't spend time in 201 going through introductory mat
 erial on R. Come to the first class with R and R-Studio loaded on your com
 puter. See http://cran.r-project.org/
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SUMMARY:Selenium for pythonistas
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Python Meetup Group\nFor May's meetup\, Santiago
  Suarez Ordoñez (http://www.santiycr.com/)\, committer for Selenium will 
 show you the best practices for writing automated functional tests for you
 r Python Web Apps.\n\nAgenda:\n\n6:15p - Check-in and mingle\,with Pizza a
 nd Beer provided by our generous sponsor Yelp!\n\n7:00p - Welcome and anno
 uncements\n\n7:10p - 3-4 Lightning Talks (5 minutes each)\n\n7:30p - Featu
 red Talk\n\n8:15p - Q & A and more mingling\, ping pong\, pool\n\n10:00p -
  Doors close. Late owls continue on to Thirty Bear\n\n*Please take note of
  the important check-in details at Yelp*\n\nLightning talks line-up:\n\nSc
 ott Lobdell - How to generate collages using python imaging library and bi
 nary trees\n\nBrain Rue - Things you might not know about Python Exception
 s\n\nShannon -jj Behrens - Using Python to control Minecraft\n\nMain talk:
 \n\nSelenium for pythonistas is aimed at full-stack python web developers\
 , who although aren't QA engineers\, would still like to produce higher qu
 ality code by incorporating functional tests to their toolkit. You will ge
 t a solid understanding of why and when Selenium should be used as well as
  best practices for writing robust and maintainable tests for your python 
 web apps that can be run in any continuous integration setup.\n\nMain Spea
 ker's Bio:\n\nSantiago Suarez Ordoñez (http://www.santiycr.com/) is curre
 ntly a Lead Backend Developer at Sauce Labs and a committer for Selenium\,
  an open-source automated testing framework. For almost four years now\, h
 e has helped Sauce's biggest customers improve their test automation skill
 s\, played a key part in building Sauce Labs' cloud-based browser testing 
 service and contributed to making Selenium reach the level of quality we a
 ll enjoy today. He has also presented at numerous testing conferences and 
 tech meet-ups.\n\n*** important logistics***\n\nIf you've encountered some
 thing cool recently\, please submit a topic for your lightning talk when y
 ou RSVP for the event. Please note that recruiting pitches are unacceptabl
 e as lightning talks. Don't know what lightning talks are? Learn more: htt
 p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk\n\n*CHECK-IN PROCESS*\n\nDoors wi
 ll open at 6:15pm to allow enough time for the check-in process. Please up
 date the name on your account to reflect your FIRST NAME and LAST NAME. Ye
 lp Security and Hy will be checking IDs at the door. *Please note: You WIL
 L ONLY be allowed into the event if we have your first and last name (that
  matches the name on your ID) prior to the event. Beer and wine will be se
 rved at this event. Please keep in mind only folks 21 and over are allowed
  into the event. (Another reason for the ID check) If you will be bringing
  a guest\, please provide us with their first and last name as well. Waiti
 ng list folks will be allowed into the event AFTER we admit all confirmed 
 attendees. Yelp is generously providing pizza\, drinks\, and beer in addit
 ion to their venue space. Please respect and abide by the attached event t
 erms/guidelines: YELP EVENT GUIDELINES (https://marakana.com/static/commun
 ity/2012%20Yelp%20Property%20Event%20Terms.pdf). As usual\, looking forwar
 d to meeting you and feel free to ping me with questions or suggestions -\
 n\nGrace
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130502T180000
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SUMMARY:Business Model Canvas workshop with Tristan Kromer
DESCRIPTION:Lean Startup Circle - Silicon Valley\n"No business plan surviv
 es first contact with the customer."\n\n-Steve Blank\n\nABOUT:\n\nThe Busi
 ness Model Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder has become the de facto languag
 e of the lean startup. It allows startups to throw away their static 50 pa
 ge business plans and focus on validating the riskiest unknowns of their b
 usiness.\n\nFor a balanced team\, the canvas is a shared language that des
 igners\, developers\, and product owners can use to make sure everyone is 
 focused on one clear objective. No sub-optimizing for pretty pixels. No pe
 rfectly refactored code bases. Only a shared vision on validating each cor
 e assumption to build a business.\n\nThis will be a hands on workshop rapi
 dly constructing a Business Model for a sample project in one hour and the
 n applying the principles to your own project in the second hour.\n\nAfter
  this workshop you will:\n\nBe able to develop a full business model based
  around a customer and value proposition Identify the riskiest assumption 
 in your business model Be ready to develop an MVP based on your business m
 odel\n\nSCHEDULE:\n\n6:00 - Doors open\; networking\, food & drinks\n6:30 
 - Constructing your Business Model\n7:30 - Applying the Lean principles to
  your Business Model\n8:30 - Wrap-Up\n\nTRISTAN KROMER:\n\nhttp://photos3.
 meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/7/2/c/event_228125932.jpegThe workshop wil
 l be led by Tristan Kromer (http://grasshopperherder.com/) (@TriKro (http:
 //twitter.com/trikro)) - Boots on the ground at Lean Startup Circle.\n\nTr
 istan pokes\, prods\, and questions startups. He’s spent 10 years in the
  music industry\, worked 5 years in IT security\, lived in 5 different cou
 ntries\, studied philosophy and business (separately)\, and generally made
  a nuisance of himself for the past 3 years in Silicon Valley as a lean st
 artup (http://GrasshopperHerder.com/) advocate.
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 ents/115689042/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130424T183000
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SUMMARY:Real-time Online Learning for Event Streams
DESCRIPTION:SF Bayarea Machine Learning\nAbstract\n\nA lot of interesting 
 data comes in the form of event streams. Particularly for high volume stre
 ams\, classical batch oriented approaches don't perform well. In this talk
 \, I will discuss approaches for online learning and how to use techniques
  from stream mining like sketches and so-called heavy hitter algorithms to
  process large volume event streams with finite resources. Our experiences
  in particular with social media analysis lead to the development of strea
 mdrill (http://streamdrill.com) and I'll discuss the major design decision
 s behind it.\n\nSpeaker Bio\n\nMikio Braun (http://blog.mikiobraun.de) is 
 Chief Data Scientist and co-founder of TWIMPACT (http://twimpact.com)\, a 
 startup focussing on real-time event analysis.
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 0995342/
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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SUMMARY:VM Internals\, Tiered Compilation
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Systems-Programming Interest Group (BASPIG)\nLocation
  is in the South Bay ~10 minutes walk from a Caltrain station -- just (fre
 e) sign up for group membership for the details.\n\nGuest speakers Keith A
 dams (@ Facebook) on HHVM: a high-performance PHP engine\, and Igor Vereso
 v (@ Adobe) on tiered compilation in HotSpot.\n\nTalks will not be recorde
 d\, sorry. Everybody is here in their own capacity so no quoting or tweeti
 ng -- we want to encourage frank exchange of views. \;-) There will be piz
 za and beverages available for attendees. Thanks for RSVPing!
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130424T203000
SUMMARY:Machine Learning Study Group
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley AI\nThis is part 1 of our 10-week study group o
 n Machine Learning. The free online class is taught by Stanford Professor 
 Andrew Ng! It's fun to complete a unit of Machine Learning (https://www.co
 ursera.org/course/ml) every week and collaborate among a study group.\n\nA
 genda for the 1st meeting:\n1. Which area are you interested in applying m
 achine learning?\n2. Summarize learning in Unit 1.\n3. Any question about 
 Unit 1?\n4. Brainstorm and make progress on our machine learning projects.
 \n\nThe study group consists of 10 consecutive weekly meetings from 5:30 p
 .m. to 6:45 p.m. PST. Here is the schedule:\n\nWednesday\, April 24th —U
 nit 1\nWednesday\, May 1st —Unit 2\nWednesday\, May 8th —Unit 3\nWedne
 sday\, May 15th —Unit 4\nFriday\, May 24th —Unit 5\nWednesday\, May 29
 th—Unit 6\nWednesday\, June 5th—Unit 7\nWednesday\, June 12th—Unit 8
 \nWednesday\, June 19th—Unit 9\nWednesday\, June 26th—Unit 10\n\nDiscu
 ssion meeting minutes will be posted at:\nhttp://collaborationtalents.wiki
 spaces.com/Collaboration12\n\nLet's apply machine learning to new areas to
 gether...
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 s/113226642/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130423T220000
SUMMARY:How can Quality teams and Product Managers collaborate better?
DESCRIPTION:South Bay Software Quality Engineering\nI plan to share typica
 l challenges faced by product manager that effects their ability to engage
  more with other teams. I will share some personal experiences of being a 
 product manager after being a quality professional for a long time. What I
  learned\, what worked and what could have been better. After my presentat
 ion we can have a group discussion to discuss top 3 things that Quality te
 ams can collaborate on specific areas.\n\nI have worked in quality roles c
 ontinuously for 10 years and later I had opportunity to be a product manag
 er.\n\nWe will not discuss whether PM is a career path.\n\nIf possible\, b
 ring your product manager or product owner along to this meetup.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130422T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130422T203000
SUMMARY:Machine Learning Applications using big data for securing end user
 s
DESCRIPTION:SF Bay ACM Chapter\nEvent Details\nSymantec protects hundreds 
 of millions of users (consumer and enterprise) and their online interactio
 ns. We leverage massive amounts of anonymously collected data such as appl
 ication behaviors\, application stability and performance details\, URL/we
 b page characteristics\, file information\, process information\, network 
 information\, security events (e.g.\, malware detections\, firewall and IP
 S events\, etc.) to understand patterns of system activities in order to c
 reate new and innovative security applications that deliver best in class 
 security. Many machine learning approaches are employed to create predicti
 ve models that are applied in a variety of contexts both on the client and
  in the cloud to make real-time security decisions. This approach allows u
 s to be extremely nimble\, adaptive\, and effective against the massive gr
 owth in malware as well as in combating increasingly sophisticated and tar
 geted threats. This talk will discuss the machine learning applications an
 d engines that Symantec successfully developed and deployed\, and the chal
 lenges Symantec faced applying them to practical scenarios.\n\nSpeaker Bio
 \nSourabh Satish is a Distinguished Engineer in the Security Technology an
 d Response group in Symantec’s Office of the CTO\, where he leads resear
 ch and development of security engines and technologies. As lead engineer 
 and chief architect for Symantec’s Insight technology\, Mr. Satish appli
 es machine learning to targeted threat and general security problems. Mr. 
 Satish has been at Symantec for more than 12 years. He is a prolific innov
 ator with 90 issued patents. In the last 18 years\, since earning his Bach
 elor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from India\, Mr. Satis
 h worked as an engineer and technical lead on many security technologies s
 uch as network IDS\, firewall\, policy compliance\, host IDS\, server secu
 rity\, VOIP security\, OS and application security\, behavioral security\,
  and personal information protection. These technologies ship in both cons
 umer and enterprise products protecting millions of users.
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130420T150000
SUMMARY:Big Data Day
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Software Engineers (BASE)\nBIG DATA DAY IS AN EVENT B
 UILT BY ENGINEERS\, FOR ENGINEERS.\n\nBay Area Software Engineers (BASE) i
 s bringing engineering leaders from the big data space to direct technical
  discussions on creating awesome software. The Big Data Day talks will foc
 us on sharing actionable advice for engineers and are likely to be too tec
 hnical for those who do not create in code. Please register to join us for
  a day of awesome engineering talks\, prizes\, pizza & drinks. It is free 
 to sign up but space is limited.\n\nPlease visit http://bigdataday.org/ fo
 r more speaker information\n\nThe theme of discussion for this day will be
  working with large amounts of data. We've brought a group of engineers wh
 o are solving very interesting big data engineering issues and are excited
  to speak.\n\nSpeakers\n\n-------------------------\n\nBRUNO TERKALY Devel
 oper Evangelist at Microsoft\n\nUtilizing big data technologies with Micro
 soft. Bruno is currently Developer Evangelist for Microsoft in Northern Ca
 lifornia. Bruno is a former “Rapid Response Engineer.” The new term is
  “Premier Field Engineer (PFE).” Whatever you call it\, he was able to
  handle critical situations and was deployed to customer sites across the 
 EMEA region. He has worn many hats in his career\, from low-level\, deep d
 ebugging to hosting and presenting at large conferences about developer te
 chnologies\, such cloud computing\, architecture\, performance tuning.\n\n
 TOM FLORES Software Licensing and IP Attorney\n\nTomas M. Flores\, Esq. (B
 .S. Computer Science\; Juris Doctorate). Software licensing\, and intellec
 tual property attorney proudly serving Bay Area developers and technology 
 companies since 2008. Former prosecutor\, and software engineer.\n\nDAVID 
 HWANG Chief Scientist\, Restaurant Sciences\n\nMonetizing big data in the 
 restaurant space. David has a Physics degree from UNC and was awarded the 
 first patent for a system to sanitize textile needles by the Public Health
  Corps. His Tech Proficiencies include POS (Normalization\, Integration)\,
  No SQL (Mongo\, Hadoop)\, Scaling SQL databases (Postgres)\, Data Analysi
 s (R)\, Presentation (D3\, Processing)\, and Machine Learning (Mahout\, Nu
 menta) He holds Board positions at the following: Restaurant Sciences\, Me
 diaGlint\, Dash\, FohBoh\, appPlatter\, SnapSpend\, PosIq\, SubtleData\, G
 eoSPec360. David also holds six patents in various fields and has authored
  two books on equity derivatives.\n\nFUAD MALIKOV Co-founder & Managing Pa
 rtner Hazelcast\n\nHazelcast\, in-memory big data. The Co-Founder of Hazel
 cast\, an in-memory data grid product will give a 20 minute technical talk
  on Hazelcast. Prior to joining Hazelcast\, Fuad worked on J2EE projects a
 s a technology consultant in financial and telecom industries. He was an I
 T architect at IBM\, developing J2EE based core-banking system for one of 
 the biggest banking transformation projects in Europe.\n\nDAVE FOWLER Foun
 der of Chartio\n\nDave Fowler is the founder of Chartio\, the best interfa
 ce for data. A Forbe’s 30 under 30 in Technology for 2011 and 2012\, Dav
 e moved to the Bay Area three years ago where he joined Y Combinator and p
 ursued his startup idea of giving a face to data. During and after school 
 Dave worked at IBM for 2 years where he worked on the processor for the Xb
 ox 360 and filed 10 patents. In school he studied Physics\, two other unde
 rgrads and finished with a masters degree in Electrical Engineering.\n\nSp
 onsors\n\n--------------------------\n\nMicrosoft\n\n---------------------
 -----\n\nFounded in 1975\, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide lead
 er in software\, services\, and solutions that help people and businesses 
 realize their full potential.\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/\n\nhttp://photo
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 ecome Noticed is a San Francisco SEO (http://www.becomenoticed.com/) Compa
 ny that focuses on best practices and engaging the latest Web technologies
  to build strong Web strategies for clients developing Websites and Applic
 ations.\n\nThe Founder of Become Noticed Michael Latulippe (http://michael
 latulippe.com/) is a software engineer and Web developer specializing in P
 HP\, jQuery\, AJAX\, JavaScript\, and HTML5 technologies.\n\nBecome Notice
 d\, Inc. sponsors the BASE and Eclipse Group with financial\, logistic\, a
 nd promotional support.\n\nhttp://www.becomenoticed.com (http://www.become
 noticed.com/)\n\nhttp://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/5/3/c/even
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 nsors at our local Bay Area Software Engineers (BASE) community events do 
 not necessarily express the opinion or views of the BASE organization and 
 we do not take responsibility for the views expressed or the actions of sp
 eakers or sponsors at our local events.\n\n---------------------------\n\n
 Bay Area Software Engineers is Growing\n\n---------------------------\n\nO
 ur group has grown by leaps and bounds this past year and we are proud to 
 announce that Bay Area Software Engineers (BASE) is going to continue to g
 row and develop our ecosystem with job fairs\, training events\, and groun
 dbreaking events. We couldn't do it without our members and we want to tha
 nk you for being apart of this growing organization.\n\nhttp://photos4.mee
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