The Boston Data Mining meetup focuses on making data mining accessible to everyone. It aims to be inclusive to all regardless if you are a beginner or expert in statistical modeling, machine learning, data mining, or any of the analytics (business, predictive, etc). Our talks will focus on the practical side of data mining and analytics by showing attendees how to perform data modeling in a non-programming environment. To achieve that goal we employ RapidMiner; an open source data mining platfor …

The purpose of this group is to provide learning and shooting opportunities to photographers in Rhode Island. You should join this group if you are interested in learning more about photography or if your interested in taking part in model shoots. Models and stylist may also join this group if you are interested in working our shoots.

This photography group is open to all photographers and models interested in studio and on-location fashion, glamour, food, and product photography. Its focus is to organize photo shoots, offer workshops on lighting, post processing and constructive critique. A unique and exciting feature of this group is its complete access to a large full-featured commercial studio in Bedford, MA. The studio contains a large array of high-end lights and equipment that will be available for workshops and shoots …

Studio Without Walls Photo Workshops (established in RI in 2009) provides an educational and practical, low cost venue for aspiring photographers, young or old, to learn basic techniques of approach and application of ideas in a variety of locations and learning situations. It is perfect for photographers that have experience, and knowledge of their Digital SLRs, who want to broaden their base of knowledge with a variety of workshops that include Alternative Lighting, The Intimate Portrait, On-L …

If you are fed up of hanging around with people who's only idea of fun is computer games, boozing, snoozing or staring mindlessly at a TV for hours on end. If you would like something more productive to do with your free time, something more interesting and more stimulating for your eyes, hands and creative mind. If you just don't have enough art related activities through the day and need to pack in an extra couple of hours outside of school or work. If you'd like to meet like minded individual …

This is a group for serious and advanced amateur photographers looking to explore and share great shooting locations, specific shooting opportunities at events, collaborations with equipment at specific shoots while developing more expertise and familiarity with your camera, lights and accessories. We will focus on learning more about photography using specific meet-up events throughout Boston and New England.  Self Taught?  This is the group for you. If you are a DSLR photographer with some exp …

We are looking to capture beautiful light paths that fall on human forms. We will explore and share what we learn. We look forward to work with photographers, models and makeup artists who have the same interests.

We welcome dancers, models, fashion designers, choreographers, film makers, producers, musicians, actors/actresses and anyone associated with dance, modeling, fashion design and music video production. We are particularly interested in cutting edge choreography, fashion, production, and new media.

We are a group that is focused on creating new business models in music fashion and dance. Creating competing business models that are better for musicians, dancers, producers, music publishers, photographers, fashion designers is essential in the age of new media.

Data mining! Predictive Modeling! Statistical Modeling! Predictive analysis! What does this all mean for marketers, and how can it work in your organization? This group aims to explore how data mining is leveraged by marketing departments and firms to predict behavior and optimize response and profitability.

This group was founded by PeterP, a DC based Photographer with roots in New England (Holyoke, MA) The leadership team was recently expanded with the inclusion of Rick Trotter, a partner in Light Works studio in Worcester. Rick and his partners at Light Works Studio will host group events schedule at their studio in Worcester. PeterP runs several active Meetup groups in the DC area with hundreds of members. This group is actively looking for new members including other studios in New England in …

My aim for this meetup is to develop a group of individuals who will benefit from establishing a portfolio of their work, whether they are inspiring photographers (like me), prop or food stylists, interior designers, fashion or jewelry models, etc. My personal interest is to put together a portfolio of commercial advertising images, essentially product photography that I plan to use to get my “foot in the door” of advertising. But, I am also happy to shoot food, design, fashion, and so on depend …

The Zeitgeist Movement is an explicitly non-violent, global sustainability advocacy group currently working in over 1000 Regional Chapters across 70 countries. The basic structure of The Movement consists of Chapters, Teams, Projects & Events. Overall, the Chapters are essentially what define the Movement and each Chapter works to not only spread awareness about the roots of our social problems today but also to express the logical, scientific solutions and methods we have at our disposal to upd …

Embracing the full spectrum from ancient traditions and the occult to cutting edge science, Soul Experiments Meetup gathers those intererested in exploring consciousness, spirituality, energy and the multidimensional nature of ourselves and reality. Let's experiment, play and learn together!  Let's create a safe space to share our experiences. Let's take the "woo" out of "woo woo". :-) Types of Meetups: We will be having several types of meetups. At least once a month there will be a free meetup …

Welcome! You have made the important first step in meeting a group of people who share many of the same feelings that you are experiencing right now. We are modeled on the North Shore Divorced and Separated Group. The members have diverse backgrounds. This includes a wide range of professions, trades, economic and religious backgrounds. Over time, feedback from the people that join our group has been that they find comfort in meeting others who know what the divorce/separated experience is all …

This group is for entrepreneurs who want to start a business or who have already started one and want to openly discuss their business models and get help. We want to particularly focus on tech startups and on B2B business models. But, all are welcome.

So we've been quite busy over the past few years. Mike Hendrickson and I started the Great Model Shoots and running other meet up events and realized that we needed a base of operations. I now own one of the largest photo studios in New England. Worcester Photo Studios is a 10,000 sq foot studio which was originally an industrial building. We reclaimed it and built it up over the past year. We now have a steel plated room, models changing room, bay doors for cars or other large objects, props, …

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by po …

Blender 3D is a free and open-source 3D platform capable of competing with many established professional 3D content suites, but Blender has traditionally suffered from lack of visibility and a smaller userbase than other platforms. Boston Blender was formed to unite Blender users throughout the northeast to learn together, share our projects, and spread the word about this powerful tool. This group is open to experienced Blenderheads and newbies alike—come learn and create with us.

Welcome to the Fetish Alliance of New England About Us We are a friendly group of New Englanders that enjoy getting together and expressing our fetishes and kink in healthy ways. This group is open to all with fetish desires new and experienced alike. Do keep in mind that this group is NOT geared towards the swinger community. We strictly focus on Fetishes and BDSM and events that let us explore those things. Join Us! First, create a new profile that reflects your personality and desired anonym …

Do you have a product, service, project, dream or idea that could benefit others – or the world – if you could only put the right structure, funding, and resources in place to create it or get it to market faster? CEO Space will speed up your efforts and deliver measurable results faster, easier, smarter and more reliably.  We guarantee it! Across America local clubs introduce business owners, corporate executives, investors, inventors, speakers, and other professionals to the philosophy of CEO …

The Exploring Eros meetup is for individuals (and couples!) interested in sharing and learning about love, sexuality, men and women, relationships and the ecstatic.....creating more connection and capacity for enjoyment.  This group will be exploring a wide range of topics both in the personal and the broader social and cultural contexts. All denominations, orientations and lifestyles are welcome. Some of the potential topics to be explored include: Modern Love & Relationships What is Love? T …

Have you been looking to meet gay folks in the area without hitting up the clubs? Do you have wildly varied interests and want to hang out with like-minded peeps? Has it been a couple years since you've danced on the boxes at Mirabar? (not that there's anything wrong with that...) If so, come check us out! Modeled after a similar group in Boston, the idea of this group is to get 20- and 30- something gays out of the house and start building some real connections with other locals. We meet the f …

This is your chance to prototype your ideas before going to VCs or for seed funding. We all have dream applications that need machine learning and predictive analytics. We can hack those app. using available machine learning APIs (from Microsoft, Google, BigML, BPA EyeQ, and so on). No need to learn those complicated math or gymnastics of matrices. This is also your way to find a co-founder, good developers, and some good feedback. By the way, investors are also welcome; coding is good for our …

If you've ever wanted to learn how to take better photos, but you don't want to get bogged down with all the technical stuff, then you're going to love this. This unique meetup group is for you if: You own a camera (or smart phone with a camera) and you'd really like to use it more, but you're not really sure where to start and what to do. Maybe you've taken a photography workshop before or tried picking up one of those thick, boring books, but you quickly got overwhelmed and overloaded with th …

This is a meet up group for those who are insprired by the world of beauty and fashion and working to start, build and grow as a stylist.  This group is about having fun doing what you love to do and collaborating with others to make things happen. Our meetings will be very different. They will vary from trainings, seminars and planning events to help group members  build and update their portfolios and "connect" events to meet with industry professionals to help you expand your contacts and po …

Purpose: To help you achieve the type of success you want with women. Why the low cost? C.J. doesn't believe in magic pill $3000 two-day bootcamps that always promise much more than they deliver. He prefers to charge less and keep helping a student for longer periods of time. This is creating the solid long-lasting change that is vital to that student's learning experience and best results with women. FREE Events: •Students will be given basic instruction on Opening and Wingman Tactics •Role-pl …

This group will act as a think tank on the practical issues in the development of the strategy, formation, and mission of an EcoCitizens “presentfuture” model of addressing the exponential increase and fair proliferation of technology. Please read the following Preliminary Mission Statement: EcoCitizens’ mission is to guide the global citizenry through the exponential advancement of technology across multiple sectors as it is employed to save, enhance, and re-define human life and the environmen …