Founded in 2007, the Sydney Data Miners group was set up to have informal meetups with those involved in all aspects of data mining from natural language processing, artificial intelligence, web mining and search engines to computational linguistics. In 2009, and with just 200 members, the group was acquired by Datarati. Throughout 2010, Datarati hosted events with senior executives from Optus, eBay, Neilsen Online and IBM. In 2011 Datarati hosted senior executives from Tobii, Deloitte Analyti …

We will be meeting monthly to: hear talks on R-related topics sharing knowledge and experience provide R beginners with an opportunity to meet more experienced users discover the power of R as a serious, general and industrial strength data mining, analysis, visualisation and reporting tool, for use in commerce, government and other fields see case studies of real-life R applications in industry disocover related commodity, open source and free tools meet experts in specific R packages, …

I have set up this group with a focus on Banking & Finance because this is the area that I have worked in for the majority of my  25 years of working life.  I am interested in finding out what value my Bank can derive from solutions based around Big Data  so that I can build a business case to present to our executives to get funding.  I’ve found that keeping up with current news around Big Data  is like using twitter on speed so I have filtered my interest  for news and use cases specifically r …