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 and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive and actionable insight, generate business value from data, and exploit business opportunities from data products. We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics,  distributed data analytics, Pig, data mining, machine learn …

For those who are geeks and like to socialise in a geeky way. This group is to cover all events from irreverent conversations, geeky quizzes, geek jokes (don't get me started on coding jokes).

Zappers is a peer sharing community designed for those who believe in learning from each other and sharing testing knowledge. Zappers are from all walks of life, some are professional software testers for large international corporations, whilst others are computer science students looking to see how their skills match up, anyone with an interest in software testing would be most welcome to join us. Zappers believe in raising the standard of software testing internationally so most Zappers come …

After seeing so many successful financial Meetup groups in the US we have noticed the absence of something similar over here. Therefore we thought that London as a financial capital must have one too. So we decided to start our own financial meetup group for London. This group aims for everyone from the industry, whether you work for a hedge fund, a bank, a financial service provider, academia, your own business or you are just passionate about finance, financial engineering, modelling or tradin …

… I did a Computer Science degree, I skydive, I do taekwondo, I´m working towards my senior coaching certification, I was in the 2011 Trampoline World Championships operations team and I have worked with many different people (young, old, beginner, advanced). In closing, I do not think there is a ´type´ of person that should join but if you like the sound of what I have had to say and would like to know more, please get in touch. Best, Ronald

DON'T JUST WATCH SCI-FI ON TV. LIVE THE ADVENTURES YOURSELF WITH LIVE ACTION ROLE PLAY (LARP). Do you fancy travelling through the Stargate? Have you wanted to save the planet from Cybermen or Daleks? Live Action Role Playing, known as LARP, is stepping into a character's shoes and literally living the actions and consequences that they bring upon themselves. There's no computer consoles or tabletop gaming, this is as real an environment as we can make it - you're really out there fighting monst …

… Bring pen & paper, computer or whatever you like using. If it's electronic please check the battery will last because venues might not have power sockets available. AFTERWARDS After the session time is up you are free to talk, socialise and share experiences with fellow writers. Almost anything goes. Sometimes we go out for a drink. It is also perfectly acceptable to come just for the writing and leave politely straight after. Your writing always comes first. MOTIVATIONAL RANT (in case you …

The Big Data Technology and Business Insight Group is about developing and promoting the BigData community in the UK We currently create or replicate about 1.8 zettabytes (ZB) of data. Just a few years ago, we hadn’t even invented the word zettabyte. Every day we send approximately 300 billion e-mails and share one billion items on Facebook; every minute we post 170,000 tweets to Twitter. We will explore and explain the difficulties which include capture, storage, search, sharing, analyt …