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eCommerce Toronto (#eCommTO) is a monthly roundtable discussion meetup for Canadian eCommerce merchants and professionals to talk shop. Want a sneak peak? Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huHAuJ17dEE How do we run this meetup? We host our meetups in the MaRS Commons to discuss various topics under the umbrella of eCommerce. Our meetups are free to attend and occur on the first Thursday of each month from 6-7pm. We like to keep it to an hour to ensure we keep on topic and use ev …

Welcome to the Toronto Jaspersoft User Group. We meet once a month to share knowledge around the Jaspersoft suite. Each meeting begins with a presentation by Luke Shannon, generally pertaining to a component of the Jaspersoft report and analysis suite. Following this, there will be an open discussion where users will get to share their work or get assistance with their problems from the group. The focus of the presentations will be community products, although professional components will be rev …

Where relating is ART Authentic Relating can mean there's no right way (no cookie-cutter mould) that relating is supposed to be. simply showing up with the intention to drop trying to come off a certain way. celebrating whatever arises letting ourselves mess it up intending to cultivate even just 1% more connection, transparency, and aliveness in our interactions Within that, I remind myself that trying to be authentic all the time is (ironically) inauthentic to my true nature. ;) ART is a r …

This group an exclusive group of highly driven entrepreneurs for online and brick/mortar businesses. This is for global users which include virtual based meetings online. You must be serious at what you do and not a flake. We have no need to be held back.

Our group is dedicated to users of Amazon AWS and other cloud services. We hold social gatherings where we discuss new service offerings, tools and techniques for using and managing Amazon's IaaS and PaaS services. Come by our next meeting and you'll meet some of the people leading the cloud computing revolution in Toronto, meet fellow AWS users, learn about a new tool, a technique or a design pattern for AWS or just nerd-out with fellow cloud computing enthusiasts and fine wine, beer or scotch. …

We're scattered throughout Toronto and the GTA, working in health care, software, government, banking and dozens of other industries. Often we're the lone stats expert or data guru in a larger organization. Let's get together and talk it all over - software, training, new developments and the all-important question of how to help our colleagues understand statistics.

R and Matlab users have few groups to join so I started one on Meetup. This goup is to add the needs of those who use these tools for research in the financial services industry of models, algos, and trading strategies. If you fall into any of these areas of interest, please join to learn more ways enhance your uses of this software.

Accounting for roughly only 1-4% of the population, INTJs (Introversion, Intuition, Judging, Thinking) are one of the rarest of the 16 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality types. Often referred to as "Masterminds," us INTJs are a peculiar bunch—independent, analytical, rational, creative, pragmatic and logical. Although we possess many enviable qualities, INTJs are also known for being less sociable than most other types. Perhaps being surrounded by like-minded folk will encourage us t …

Hi there, I have a background in undergraduate level western philosophy from ancient to modern. I take a special interest in cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind, but love all areas of philosophy, as really they all come into play. My vision for a group is to establish a book club of sorts. We will meet in cozy pubs around T.O. or anywhere we can have lively and stimulating discussions. I will act as high-level organizer but we can take turns facilitating discussions and presentations. …

Calling all Toronto area Tableau users and people interested in learning about Tableau Software! See what your peers are doing with Tableau, share Tableau tips and tricks, and hear about Tableau events in the GTA.

"If you can not measure it, you can not improve it." - Lord Kelvin, and countless successful entrepreneurs Startup Metrics Toronto (#StartupMetricsTO) is a group for entrepreneurs and product managers to discuss the metrics that matter to their startups. It has never been easier to measure every interaction that people have with your product. What to measure and how to use the data is becoming more of a science than ever. The purpose of this group is to share resources and discuss your experienc …

Data + Visualization Toronto is a meetup for hackers who love data. We cover everything from data processing with distributed real-time systems (such as Storm, used by Twitter) to data visualization methods and tools. Join us each month for a 30 minute pro-talk followed by a code challenge where you will pair with another developer to analyze/visualize a new data set.

Calling all Darth Vaders of Python! Let's get together and be on the force side. Creating this community is special as lots of companies are moving to Python and it will be fun to share our stories. We'll meet once a month for some food and drinks.

Goal: We are bringing people together who are performing social network analysis professionally, academically and for kicks. This will be an ongoing learning experience with hands-on workshops, presentations and discussions. To start: We will be together working through the free Coursera course "Social Network Analysis", which is a 9 week program with weekly assignments and lectures. We'll get that certificate together. https://www.coursera.org/course/sna Evolution: Once we are through with the …

Most Startups don't struggle to built their product, they struggle to build an audience and to acquire customers. This group is dedicated to meshing coding with UX and marketing techniques to test and optimize creative new ways to solve this problem. We'll cover growth hacking best practices, case studies and important skills. Whether you are coming to learn or to share a lesson learned, we want to hear from you. *Growth Hacking: A data-driven approach to marketing, user acquisition and sales fu …