Last year a twitter conversation among three data geeks accidentally turned into a 30+ person data meetup — with no planning, nowhere near enough chairs, and yet a total success. Clearly, SxSW needs a gathering of data geeks.

So here it is, bigger, better, and with free food. We're still keeping it simple, though: get a whole bunch of really smart data geeks together, set up group... [read more]

Last year a twitter conversation among three data geeks accidentally turned into a 30+ person data meetup — with no planning, nowhere near enough chairs, and yet a total success. Clearly, SxSW needs a gathering of data geeks.

So here it is, bigger, better, and with free food. We're still keeping it simple, though: get a whole bunch of really smart data geeks together, set up group discussions and a round of lightning talks, but leave the majority of time for people who admire each other's work to meet and exchange ideas.