Having never worked at Google, Yahoo, Facebook, or any other Silicon valley company widely applying MapReduce, as former Chief Scientist of several Silicon Valley start-ups, Analytics Architect of The LikeMinds Personalization Server, and former Sr. Software Engineer/Statistician at IBM, all of a sudden I'm being left behind. How about you? We are smart, superbly trained, exceedingly experienced in "big-data", power computer users, and programmers in dozens of now unfortunately passe' programmin …

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.

This is a meetup for Bay Area users of Spark (www.spark-project.org), the high-speed Scala-based cluster programming framework. We'll be rotating among locations in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Berkeley. We'll also discuss other Spark-related projects, including the Hive-on-Spark port (Shark), and other new programming tools for big data. The meetup will include introductions to the various Spark features, case studies from current users, best practices for deployment and tuning, and futur …