We are the local group for ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics). Our mission is to promote the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Our purpose is to foster a membership community whose core values help them to catalyze the innovation and application of computer graphics and interactive techniques. We meet roughly every month, usually on the third Thursday. Our local group has been me …

Ideas, learning, experimentation, and conversation about graph data and its value to businesses and consumers alike. Located in Redwood City, the heart of Silicon Valley's Data Corner, the Lab explores the application of graph theory and emerging database and visualization technologies.

The SF Bay Area Big Data Think Tank brings together experts and visionaries from academia and the industry in : - Visualization, data infrastructure, and data science - Applications that leverage Big Data in areas such as advertising, marketing, eCommerce, CRM, security, etc. - Art and design, specially as it relates to data We host periodic talks, panel discussions and hackathons. Join us! Come Learn, Network & Share. Brought to you by The Hive that incubates, funds and launches businesses that …

This group is dedicated to organizing discussions, meetups, and events around data 2.0. The focus of data 2.0 is about utilizing the new avalanche of online data and new data-centric business models. The Data 2.0 organizers are also the producers of DataWeek.co Sept 22-27 in San Francisco as well as the Data 2.0 Summit (data2summit.com) We view "Old Data" is the practice of closing off your data, and data 2.0 hosting data online and making it accessible by other organizations. That includes big …

We're a group of folk broadly interested in the application of data science and sustainability, discussing questions like: what data feeds can improve supply chain sustainability? what algorithms should be applied to water conservation? what challenges of scale lie behind automated energy efficiency? what can be learnt from quantitative finance, search, and other related fields? We meet on the first Thursday of every month at EcoFactor's offices in Redwood City.

http://www.moviemakersunite.com/.org MMU Presents : SILICON VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL AND AWARDS  OCT-NOV. , 2012 www.svfilmfestival.org MMU FILM FESTIVAL '09 :  http://www.meetup.com/moviemakersunit...... MMU - PRODUCTION , PITCH AND NETWORKING MEETINGS: Bi Weekly. Bring your script / idea in one page. If you have a script, you will get your film production scheduled immediately. And network with fellow film makers, actors, camera, editors,etc. Current Projects: (Details in the about pages) Am …

For - IT managers, Ananlyst, Data Warehouse specialist, BI Developers, ETL developers, Data Architects, Business Analyst, BigData specialist, HANA, Hadoop, Hortonworks, Cloudera users

What is the Shadow? The shadow contains all the parts of ourselves that we try to hide, deny or suppress. It is the keeper of all the aspects of ourselves that we dislike and the qualities that we judge as unacceptable. The shadow wears many faces: angry, critical, fearful, lazy, controlling, selfish, weak, pathetic… These are the faces we don ’t want to show the world and the faces we don ’t want to show ourselves. Most of us expend huge amounts of energy trying to get rid of or control these …

We are a group of mothers, daughters, healers and artists who treasure wellness as the most precious gift and believe that healing comes from many different places: from the sun, rain, wind; from beauty and love; from art and poetry; from plants and kind hands; from knowledge and intuition; from indigenous culture and scientific minds; we are beautiful women who gather to share, to learn, to rest and to inspire.

A group for events in the San Francisco Bay Area hosted by Microsoft. Join if you're a developer or IT professional interested in Microsoft technologies such as Windows 8, Windows Server, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, SharePoint, Office, Dynamics, Xbox, etc. Also join these groups run by community members: Bay.NET San Francisco .NET Developers San Francisco Bay BizSpark San Francisco SQL Server User Group Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group A …

The Programmatic Advertising & Data group is for Savvy Marketers and Technologists to discuss the latest trends in advertising technologies, advertising tools and more. Though there is a focus on programmatic advertising there are other areas covered like mediation, aggregators, programmatic mobile, search analytics

This group is dedicated to all lightworkers just starting to become aware and others who have been shinning the light their whole lives. We will be doing metaphysical workshops, such as angels, meditating, chakra clearings, vision boards, artist way groups, and talks on a wide range subjects. Come and join the light and illuminate!

An eclectic community gathering of all ages and all professions who are committed to becoming better public speakers. We support each other through regular meetings where you will have the opportunity to practice prepared speeches and impromptu responses. Several yearly workshops including speech evaluation, debate skills, and visual presentations. Please note that most of our organization and planning is done at www.menloparktm.org You are welcome to stop by as a guest to any of our meetings …

The Silicon Valley .NET User Group exists to bring together people interested in developing software using the Microsoft Stack. The topics are aimed at developers and other technical people, and we schedule experts in the field of .NET Development. In this group, you will see much more Visual Studio than you will Powerpoint. Our meetings are free, and are hosted on the Microsoft campus in Mt. View. Please come and join us.

We love big data, analytics, innovation, and strategy. We're dedicated to smarter, more intelligent methods for using big data in analytics, social media, cloud, and business intelligence. To learn more, visit http://future-bi.tv/

Are you missing out on the most important relationship in your life? It’s not the relationship with your significant other, your parents, or your children… it’s the relationship with yourself! Do you ever criticize, judge, or ignore yourself? When you treat yourself with disrespect, all other aspects of your life suffer: Your relationships with others, your career, and your personal life. Join us for practical and engaging workshops and discussions, where you will be able to heal the wounded rel …

Open to all interested in PyData, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, and all the cool new Python data tools.

A Bay Area based Hadoop user group focused on helping Hadoop users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems.