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#BigDataMN: Minnesota's Field Guide to Analytics

SOLD OUT!  We gave out in excess of 800 seats. 

 

The Future of Analytics

Date: 
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 08:00

Target will be sponsoring the third annual Retail Analytics conference on December 13th.

Speakers will include:

MinneBar 6

Date: 
Saturday, May 7, 2011 - 09:00

What is MinneBar?

This is Minnesota's barcamp - an (un)conference where you are the leaders of the discussions and sessions. If you are interested in a topic just sign up to lead a discussion and like-minded folks will seek you out. We are setting up a wiki so that you can add sessions you are interested in leading.

SIGN UP HERE

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The Life Science Analytics Lean In [working title]

Data Science and Big Data in Health Care Conference.

October 11th 2013,  Eden Prairie, MN

Speaking opportunities and Sponsorships are available.

Watch the videos of the sessions you missed.

“There are some big data meetups centered in the standard conference centers…Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York… but this is unheard of for a local meetup group, I don’t know of another one like it in the country.”  -Dave Fowler, Founder Chart.IO San Francisco, CA

A Threat to our use of Census Data - a message from Joan Naymark and MACS (Minnesotans for the American Community Survey)

How often are demographics used in your analytics and results?  Population change, income or educational attainment, age or ethnicity, neighborhood urbanicity or  psychographics -- let’s face it – analytics are built on good data.   Most of us focus on the attributes of markets and customers in our work at some point.

No Cost Online Classes of Interest (MOOC's)

Machine Learning
Andrew Ng, Stanford University
https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
Learn about the most effective machine learning techniques, and gain practice implementing them and getting them to work for yourself.
Next Session: Apr 22nd 2013 (10 weeks long)  Workload: 5-7 hours/week

Upcoming Events of Interest

Twin Cities Code Camp 14
Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Minneapolis, MN

Register Here: http://tccc14.eventbrite.com

The code camp with all the things!

Hadoop User Group to discuss Impala

Date: 
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 19:00

Cloudera announced Impala, an open source real time query engine on top of Hadoop at the Strata Conference Oct 24th.

Brock Noland will be talking about Impala at this TCHUG meeting on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 7:00 PM.

See the event page to sign up: http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-Hadoop-User-Group/events/87531642/

 

University of St. Thomas

Technology Breakthroughs that will Drive Social Innovation

Date: 
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 16:00

Our featured speaker: Salim Ismail is a sought-after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.

He addresses topics including breakthrough technologies and their impact on a variety of industries. Salim spent the last three years building Singularity University (SU) as its founding Executive Director and current Global Ambassador.

MinneBar-B-Q

Date: 
Sunday, September 9, 2012 - 17:00

Learn more about Minnestar 

Just like Return of the Jedi, we expect the 3rd installment of MinneBar-B-Q to be a huge hit. Come out, relax, and hang out with some of the finest geeks and tech folks in the state. Bring the whole family and enjoy some time outside!

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