Good data visualization help you to tell good stories, both in the field of business and academia. Good data visualization provide you quick insight of large data and better communicate to business people! Our goal in the group is to share the successful experience about data visualization, including both technical software and creative ideas!

Calling all newcomers transitioning to the field of Data Mining and Visualization in South Bay. Lets get-together to code, discuss projects, and materials that can help get jump started in this new and very exciting area. Looking forward to exploring and learning more about this field with you.

Rather than focusing on one specific profession, we want to mingle with varieties of visual creators; graphic designers, interior designers, product designers, architects, videographers, photographers, filmmakers and more. Visual creators should have something in common and expand their expertise in different directions, but we all probably want to get inspired by other visual creators. The main activity of this group is social mixers, which help members meet new visual creators, get inspiration …

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 …

This meetup is focused on hands-on coding for Cloud platforms. The goal is ultimately for members to share best practices and innovate. This meetup is about sharing code and building applications that run in the cloud. Although I work for Microsoft as a developer evangelist, I welcome all developers from all cloud platforms. Initially, the meetings will be focused on the Windows Azure Platform (Azure). Azure is new and initial meetings will be designed to get developers up and running and workin …

The SF Data Mining meetup focuses on all aspects of the data pipeline--from data acquisition and big data storage to machine learning and data visualization. Current Goals Host speakers Host educational workshops Host volunteer events Highlight existing events around the bay area and organize transportation, etc Spread awareness of rising data mining technologies Who is this meetup for? Data engineers, analysts, scientists, and other practitioners Data visualization developers and designers J …

SF ART FORUM {MEDIA+TECH} San Francisco Art Forum {MEDIA+TECH} is an open resource for SF Bay Area visual artists. Connect with innovative art professionals, art enthusiasts and possible buyers. We promote local and national artists' body of work through our social media channels and industry connections. We provide educational resources and host social media+tech events with art & visuals emphasis in the San Francisco Bay Area. Services include: educational tools (arts & tech), crowd funding r …

The purpose of this group is to gather Gephi users and share ideas, contacts, datasets and good practices about the tool. Gephi is an open-source network visualization software (http://gephi.org). It is used in various domains to visualize and analyze large networks. This group is open to everyone interested in Gephi and is lead by it's co-founder.

Some may think you're a unicorn, but you just want to create. This group is dedicated to bringing out both the hacker and designer in all of us. The old dichotomy of developer vs. designer is a relic of 20th century corporate America. In this experimental group, we study interaction and visual design while simultaneously translating our new-found sensibilities into actual code. This group is about balancing our logical and linear left brains with our imaginative and creative right brains.

EdgeSpring is a San Mateo based Kleiner-Perkins & Lightspeed Startup in the business intelligence and analytics space. This group was formed as a forum for fostering community by bringing together companies that are using the technology as well as those interested in learning more. Join this group if you are interested in innovative business intelligence technology, data visualization, big data, and more. Join if you are a business analyst or a business user of BI and want to find new an innovat …

Big Data is in vogue, its the new buzzword. But what is Big Data? Do we know all the pieces of the Big Data puzzle? This group will cover all the five pieces of Big Data - Infrastructure, Data Storage/Management, Data Sciences, Visualization and one missing piece. We will cover one piece of the puzzle in every meetup. The idea is to have a holistic view of Big Data.

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.

New tools and technologies appear daily for ingesting, munging, storing, processing, analyzing, visualizing data. These things don't often fit cleanly into existing groups. Wherever possible, we invite the authors and creators to join us to share with us their work -- be it in the form of a presentation, workshop, or happy hour. Events are held throughout the SF Bay Area. This is the sister group of the Data SF Bay LinkedIn group.

"Visual Media Professionals Group in San Francisco" is a professional group dedicated to provide time to share knowledge, experience and ideas with others professional who live or work in San Francisco Bay Area. Our members are coming from Photography, Graphics Design, Printing, Webdesign, Animation, TV, Movie, Magazine and Fashion industries. Our purpose is to deliver what it takes to help our group members become more successful and profitable in their professional life or business. To accompl …

This group is for people interested in collaborating on fun and eduational polymer clay projects. We are about: learning by crafting, creating open educational content, youtube, using polymer clay millefiori as visualizing tool , claymation, making tutorials, video editing. See examples on openclay.org We meet at the Open Fine Art Gallery in Berkeley openfineartgallery.net

This is a group for anyone interested in big data technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analysis, data visualization, etc. All skills levels are welcome. I have started this group for big data professionals to network and learn the latest in the big data technology. Looking forward to having lively discussions about the cutting edge big data technology and its impact on the business world.

Are you doing something new with traditional content? Making it more visual, social, interactive, whatever? Are you in ed-tech, corporate e-learning, journalism, interaction design, the arts? Once a month, let's leave our silos for a few hours and teach each other how to MAKE IT NEW.

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 …

Have a cool data visualization to show? Questions to ask? Want to meet others who have a data driven mindset? Let's meetup and talk d3.js! http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

Are you a developer interested in learning how to summarize, visualize and interpret your data? Are you building a website or application that needs to be smarter in making predictions, segmenting users, or generating recommendations? Come by and meet with other developers and learn about best practices, hear about what’s new in building data-driven applications, and drink some free beer.

Non-profit Festivals & Events covering tech challenges with emphasis on artistic expression and creativity. Bringing together independent artists, coders, game developers, creators, performers and musicians celebrating Art and Technology. CODAME exists to incubate and support artists, technologists and designers that push the boundaries of hardware, software, and physical/digital mediums. At the intersection of ART+TECH, CODAME is accelerating the way we interpret and express our rapidly changin …

Shakti is the feminine force present in both women and men. Shakti nature is subtle beauty, crazy wisdom, gentle strength, fiery compassion. To open into Shakti means a surrendering of our old patterns of thoughts, beliefs, actions, and falling into the arms of wonder, beauty, joy, and love. Shakti is always in action: expressing, engaging, creating, moving. Even in stillness, there is movement. Shakti is energy; Shakti is life force. She expresses herself uniquely in each person. SHIMMY SHAKTI …

Hi! This group is for those creative types interested in expressing their three dimensional dreams into way cool videos using Adobe After Effects. Our primary focus is on creating beautiful worlds in 3D with AE, not so much on compositing and green screens. Not big on war on violence, just projecting our visions of sanity and beauty with a big "wow" factor for those who see our work. We welcome all skill levels to the wonderful world of 3D animation in Adobe After Effects. Come join the laughter …

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. R has an estimated one million users worldwide, and its user base is growing. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its comp …

This group is for all those working with 3d animation & motion graphics. Join us for regular meetups in downtown San Francisco at TH studio. We will have brief talks about animation followed by some good old-fashioned networking! In the meantime, please check out our work (www.transparenthouse.com).

We are Access/Excel users and developers and are looking to spread the word about how some fancy tricks in Microsoft Excel (VBA Functions, automation) and a few power user procedures Microsoft Access can improve your work performance, take a load off your mind, fingers and eyes and turn nightmares into dreams with the click of a mouse. We will have free lessons and discussion about solutions.  It's a great way to network with other data professionals and learn how to use some of the advanced fun …

Calling all animators, illustrators, storyboard artists, directors, writers, producers, editors, VFX artists - it's about time we got together and made films of our own. There's too much talent in San Francisco for us to not all be collaborating together to create awesome animated films, so why not team up and make some? Whether you're a beginner or veteran, young or old, an animator or writer, as long as you want to contribute to making quality animated content, then this club is for you. The …

Occupy Data is a subgroup of Occupy Research, with the aim of analyzing and visualizing datasets related to the Occupy movement. We mainly organize hackathons, where teams of people worked on separate projects, with the goal of using free and open source tools to generate visualizations and other resources pertinent to the Occupy movement and the issues it has raised. Read more about previous projects, get inspired about what you might like to work on occupydatanyc.org or occupyresearch.net.