Jaime Fitzgerald
Data to Dollars™ specialist w/ track record of doing it. Passionate about collaborating w/ others in this timely field, & using the methods to help non-profits!

New meeting, same place:  USA Today Sport office located at 1440 Broadway, Manhattan, NY 10001 on the 17th floor.

 

This meetings presenter will be LeagueApps.com:

LeagueApps powers local sports communities such as local sports leagues, youth sports programs, college intramurals, and sports tournaments.  The web services platform...

Considering that our last networking meetup was a great success and that there was very little time to meet new members after our most recent action packed meetup, let's all get together at a wonderful location on comfortable lounge chairs and discuss last event's presentations, brainstorm new topics for presentations and stimulate our...

7:00 - 7:30...Networking

 

7:30 - 8:30...Live demos

1) Dr. Alfonso Jimenez - HealthAlert - Use Augmented Reality to Identify Health Threats Near You

2) Julia Sverchuk - Artist - GPS-based AR art gallery that opens at the Museum of America and the Sea at Mystic Seaport, CT

3) Mystery guest - AR demo

4) Ori Inbar - The latest and...

To register for this event, use the link below:

http://501technycapril12-eorg.eventbrite.com/

 

501 Tech NYC: Connect. Learn.

Change the world!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

5:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Socializing

6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Discussion

Join us for a recap of NTEN’s 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) with a 501 Tech NYC and...

We're all getting excited!

Come to the 2nd floor and look for the man with the red beard.

Meetup schedule:

630pm - 7pm: Find a seat, sip a drink, mingle

7 - 715: Noah Pivnick and his idea http://thehospitalsafety.net -- Beginner (a member wanting to explore an idea) -- Will tell social good for-profit idea and ask for advice from the...

How does the "Big Data Era" expand the potential of one of the oldest and most high-impact analytic methodologies....Customer Profitability Analytics?

Customer Profitability Analytics remains a "must have capability" in Financial Services and Beyond, and for many companies there is still a gap in their ability to "know...

As consumer expectations for enterprise IT take a dramatic shift, get the inside track on how innovative start ups and corporations are positioning themselves to take advantage.

According to Gartner the consumerization of IT will be, "the single most influential trend affecting the technology sector in the coming decade, but the effects are...

Interested in Hadoop? And Hadoop in the Cloud? What about applications of Hadoop in finance? If the answer is yes, then this event is for you. Whether you are a CTO, programmer, trader, risk officer, quant, data administrator, or anyone else involved with 'big data' in finance, this is an event not to miss. ~~~ AGENDA ~~~ 08:30-09:00:...

This month we're back after a hiatus with an all new location. Blake Shaw will be giving a talk appropriate for the venue: "Machine Learning with Large Networks of People and Places". Here's his abstract:

Foursquare is now aware of over 1.5 billion check-ins from 15 million people at 30 million different places all over the...

The Big Picture for Big Data: As the volume of enterprise data created has moved past terabytes and into the petabyte scale, companies need to determine the best way for them to store, manage and analyze all that information. Are you sitting on unmined gold?

GigaOM’s Structure:Data will assemble the world’s leading technologists, practitioners...

Stairway to the Dream Presents

"SUNRISE FEST" ~A Day for You & Japan~
[The Memorial/Benefit All-Day Festival for Japan's 3.11 Disaster]

OPEN: 1:30PM
START: 2:00PM
End: 11:00PM

DOOR: $5 BEFORE 5PM, $10 AFTER 5PM, UNDER 15 YEARS OLD are FREE ALL DAY!

*******SPECIAL DEAL*******
The Most Famous Japanese Beer, ASAHI 1HR Open Bar...

日本語バージョンは下記に続きます。

TOGETHER FOR 3.11
FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL
FOR JAPAN’S EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI VICTIMS

Nearly one year ago, on March 11th, 2011, the great earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. The 9.0 magnitude quake devastated northeastern Japan and the tsunami which followed brought unimaginable havoc in...

In honor of Common Cents' 21st birthday we are inviting you to join us in some 21+ fun.

Common Cents is throwing its first ever alumni event on Thursday March 8th from 6:00-9:00 P.M. at PiPs (158 Roebling Street Brooklyn, NY 11211) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. There will be drinks, pizza, ping pong and faces you haven't seen since those...

Traditional approaches to building data driven business are expensive and difficult to scale.  In addition, the process of making data valuable, taking it from unstructured to structured, is very difficult to do.   Instead of seeing problems, see possibilities for further differentiating your data sets.   Join fellow startups for a fun...

Tech@State, in partnership with The George Washington University Law School, SAIC, Microstrategy and MetroStar Systems, is excited to welcome you to Day 2 of Tech@State:  Real-Time Awareness - The Unconference. (Note:  This is a separate registration for Day 2 of Tech@State: Real-Time Awareness.  See details and register for Day 1 here.) The...

http://tech.state.gov/

This month we're lucky to have Frank Wood from Columbia presenting "Hidden Markov models: a tour from the beginning right through

Presentations to Die For
Does the word "presentation" cause you to break out into a nervous sweat? Or perhaps you're someone who doesn't mind giving presentations, but could use a boost in your delivery skills?
The great speaking techniques you already possess and how to specifically work through the areas you could use help...

Vizzuality and REDD Metrics are co-organizing a day and a half of hacking for those interested in topics of global environmental change. It will be half a day on Friday for people to present topics or data they want to see hacked on, followed by beer and discussion. Saturday will be a full day of group hacking on our favorite projects.

Several members have suggested that I present the methodology I have developed to make analysis projects higher impact by "beginning with the end in mind," starting with clear business goals and translating them into a plan for data gathering, analysis, business processes, and decisions that unlock profits.
At this meeting I an more...

This month we're swinging from the algorithmic to the visualization side of things. It's not machine learning, but I consider anything big data related to be fair game for this group. We're lucky to have O'Reilly editor and author, Julie Steele, presenting "Data Visualization: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"....

Registration Process:

I suggest we organize a meetup where the focus is to have 1-3 members of the meetup share a predictive model they have built, or are working on, to enable practical learning and thought-partnership re predictive modeling. Several members have the talent and prior work to do this -- volunteers?

In our first meeting as a group, we defined several goals for the group, one of which is “to foster learning about the evolving set of analytic tools and software.” In other words, “tools of the trade.”
I’m still working on finalizing the agenda and confirming who will demo, and on what topic. But...