This group will meet to explore all the ways that expressive arts (especially art journals, visual diaries and vision boards) can help us understand and express who we are in the world, make meaning of our lives and the events in them, and move us closer to the lives we envision for ourselves. We'll spend some time each meeting exploring a new technique or theme, give everyone some time to work on a personal project, and share what we discover. No experience required!

Do you have an idea that could be your organization's next big thing, but you are unsure of what to do next? Innovate DC is a community for intrapreneurs; employees looking to create change and get things done within an organization. We believe that innovation can happen inside organizations of any size.  All you need is someone with an idea and a champion to help navigate the waters of change.  We offer a support organization for intrapreneurs and champions that will focus on providing content …

Excel at business intelligence? Interested in learning the hot new BI tool that's working its way across the country? Tableau is a software product aimed at providing analysts across industries with powerful data visualization capabilities, and we're here to help you master it. The DC Tableau Workshop is a free and unofficial forum for beginners and experts alike, providing users a place to get help from peers with their current challenges, or to team up and take part in fun data viz competition …

PLEASE DO NOT JOIN UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THE FOLLOWING: This group of community storytellers is committed to capturing the stories of marginalized individuals in Maryland, DC and Virginia. Those who tend to be marginalized include the elderly, incarcerated, minorities, disabled, and financially disadvantaged. Our current project involves Tobytown, a tiny enclave located in Potomac, Maryland, and occupied by descendants of former freed slaves. We need your help in capturing their stories on video, …

This group is for anyone interested in embedded analytics in Software,SaaS organizations and embedded systems. Topics for discussion will be about web based business intelligence, analytics, dashboard, reporting, KPI, data analysis, and data management. Meetups will include seminars, training, hot topics (like Big Data, Advanced Visualizations, Mapping/GPS, Mobile, etc.) Suggest a topic! Many of these features can be embedded into the Logi Analytics ecosystem, seamlessly.

Data Science DC is a non-profit professional group that meets monthly to discuss diverse topics in predictive analytics, applied machine learning, statistical modeling, open data, and data visualization. Our members are professionals, students, and others with a deep interest in these fields and related technologies. Meeting topics are varied and range from tutorials on basic concepts and their applications, to success stories from local practitioners, to discussions of tools, new technologies, …

This is a group for events from Data Community DC that do not fit our other Meetups (Data Science DC, Data Business DC, Data Visualization DC, R Users DC). Job fairs, conferences, data drinks, weekend educational events, hackathons, etc.

DC Data Science Learning Group connects individuals to development or collaborative working opportunities in the data science field. Our members are professionals, students and others with beginning to intermediate skillsets in predictive analytics, statistical modeling, open modeling, data visualization and other related technologies. Meetups will be self-organized or hosted by other local organizations. All are welcome -- to share, to learn about, or to practice!

Artists love to create artwork, but promoting our work can be a tedious task. This group is a group for serious artists who would like to help support each other to reach out and show our work to the public, contact art consultants, museums and galleries and create promotional materials for their work. We will meet twice a month for work sessions with our laptops and ideas. Come with any tips you would like to share. Membership in our group will also give you the opportunity to network with fell …

We are a family who inadvertently started a New Non-Profit Organization {NPO} { *(501)(c)(3) pending *} trying to raise support, awareness and assistance in several different areas for disabled Veterans, the D/deaf community and service animals in the Anne Arundel County area of Maryland and reaching out to other communities as your donations and sponsorships allow. We offer our talents in Elementary Tutoring; Basic/Conversational American Sign Language for the D/deaf; Engineering services for t …

All G/T kids need to meet, chat with, and play stimulating educational games with their peers. Underachieving gifted kids may have AD/HD, Learning Disabilities or Other Health Impairments, Depression, OCD or OD, or have trouble making friends. They may hate to read or write. They're also creative, have great imaginations, are funny, and super-sensitive. They have high potential, but haven't met it recently. They tend to be visual, right-brained learners. BRAINRELIEF, LLC holds workshops or suppo …

Soul Art Stories - A journey of self discovery Come join a fun way to explore through assorted visual mediums, workshops, and gatherings.You do not have to be an artist or creative to participate in the process. This group offers a non-judgemental, respectful framework to allow you to experience the art process for yourself. "The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image int …

This is a group where everyone can share information and techniques, collaborate artistically and create great visual images. Join us to meet diverse, supportive, visual artists with a wide range of experiences to share. Foster personal growth and establish new connections as you become part of a vibrant photo community. We have access to facilities and equipment that can expand your technical expertise as well as challenge and facilitate your artistic vision...; and, a gallery to display the wo …

Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH is a non-profit, professional computer graphics organization serving the Washington metropolitan area. Our mission is to foster the synthesis of art and technology while promoting and educating the computer graphics and interactive media community through the exchange of printed and electronic information and innovative ideas. We are a volunteer organization that relies on its members to provide unique resources for the benefit of those interested in the field of compu …

The DC Area R Users group has become Statistical Programming DC (SPDC), a part of Data Community DC. This change is a reflection of the reality that people working with data use multiple tools to get the job done. This group has a very strong R user base and following, and our content will be primarily R focused. However, we will also have events on other programming languages that are used for statistical, numerical and data programming including Python, MATLAB, and julia, among others. Our mee …

Greetings Soulsters! Welcome to Art N Soul (DC). For those that have a little bit of soul, and like to stir it up a bit...you've come to the right place. We believe in quality over quantity....we like to keep our group very close-knit. We try to create a platform for connecting mature and progressive like-minded men and women in the Atlanta Area. There are no "cliques" in this group...and we don't tolerate DRAMA. This is a place where like-minded professionals can meet new friends, mix, mingle a …

A group, lead by the team at IKANOW, devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the DC/Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data solutions.

Be the light is founded on the premise that love reigns supreme, everything responds to vibration and we are one with the Divine. Our focus is to be the light in our lives, to emulate joy, healing and love to those around us. We put our attention on joy and the faith that the possibilities truly are infinite. Faith is the light that illuminates your pathway, without faith the future looks frightening. Being the light keeps us in the space of expecting miracles. Realizing how much you are a gift …

Welcome to DC Dragon Boat Club! The DC Dragon Boat Club is a local non-profit organization that promotes individual and community participation in the sport of Dragon Boating to encourage awareness and stewardship of the area's waterways through recreational and competitive programs that foster physical fitness, camaraderie, and leadership skills. We are a diverse group of paddlers who enjoy the sport of dragon boat racing and the camaraderie. We welcome all individuals who want to learn more ab …

Professional network for Microsoft Developers.

In each meeting we will discuss: common design patterns that can improve your application code; software development principles that underlie many design patterns; best practices in application design and development; frameworks that support best practices. Applying these patterns and practices in real-world applications can be a lot trickier than understanding them conceptually, so we will encourage you to bring in application design problems that you have been struggling with, or solutions t …

Dear Creative Jewelry Friends, This Meetup is sponsored by the Northern Virginia Bead Society (NVBS), a Non-Profit organization created in February of 1992. Our purpose is to encourage members of the community to appreciate and participate in the visual arts through beads. We endeavor to provide a network for education opportunities and the exchange of ideas about beads and techniques in beading. We sponsor a bead and jewelry Auction (May) and a full scale Bead and Jewelry show (Sept/Oct) every …

What's the big deal with big data? McKinsey consulting predicts a shortage of 140,000 data scientists in the US, and a shortage of 1.5 Million of...the rest of us. The business users who make decisions based on the data. The folks who interact with the data scientists. Once per month, we'll feature a speaker or workshop focusing on Big Data case studies (like how Big Data is helping the NYPD solve crime, Unilever sell more soap, and The World Bank alleviate poverty in Burundi), consider the impl …

This Washington DC Meetup mission is to help businesses understand and convert Data to be an Asset as compared to be a liability. Our community will cater to SAP HANA and its ecosystem (BI, BODS, MDM, ETL, EIM etc.), BIG Data and Hadoop community and predictive analytics with R and explore Cloud offerings. ABOUT HANA SAP HANA is a modern platform for real-time analytics and applications. It enables organization to analyze business operations based on large volume and variety of detailed data in …

Big Data District is a Washington DC based organization that will articulate the future of data and technology and link together tech savvy people. We will do this by connecting supporting and developing start-ups, entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and radical ideas in the Big Data & Technology space. We will host various events including meet-ups and hackathons where attendees can connect and collaborate. Specific technology areas of interest: Hadoop Projects, Cloud Computing, Analytic Platforms and …

Big Data ! Data Science ! Predictive Analytics ! Machine Learning ! ... these are all great buzzwords but to make a system actually work and that has an impact is a non-trivial task. To go from concept to system deployment many technical, project and program elements need to come together. The goal of this meet-up group is to provide a forum for systems architects/engineers, software architects, software engineers, analysts, informaticists, data scientists, program managers and end customers a f …

The Federal Big Data Meetup group is a community dedicated to promoting the technologies, practices and innovations needed for Federal Government agencies to get maximum value from massive amounts of data. With over 2.5 trillion bytes of data accumulating around the world every day, the Federal Government is at the epicenter of the Big Data revolution. Through an exchange of BIG ideas, education and fresh thinking from Government employees, contractors and technologists, Federal Big Data aims to …

Welcome to the official MicroStrategy DC-Metro User Group Meetup.  This new group is being created to provide MicroStrategy customers and prospects with a forum for networking with, and learning from, MicroStrategy customers. This is not a sales and marketing forum! This group is being formed by Southport Services Group in conjunction with MicroStrategy.  Activities will include speakers, social events, and networking. Your participation as a MicroStrategy customer is essential to establishing a …