Good news everyone! The schedule for our 9th meetup is complete, we will have three talks from different areas of the big-data universe: Davy Suvee will give an introduction to datomic and some graph related work, he is doing with it. Kenny Helsens will present a wrap-up of the zimmo.be project Gabriel Reid will give [...]

Hello all, The friendly folks of NGDATA in Gent will host our 9th meetup. Thanks for that already! Next to a location, we are always looking for interesting things to discuss during the meetup. Have you read something interesting in the bigdata/nosql space lately? Are you implementing something amazing right now? Do you have a [...]

As our 8th meetup turned out into a hackaton on Twitter’s Storm, we devised a small presentation on what our use case was going to be: based on a person’s name, we fetch various social network profile information and put them next to each other to highlight the differences.

Hello all, the next meetup is already approaching and we are still missing some interesting topics to discuss. So if you have read something lately that is worth mentioning, or if you’re in the middle having a breakthrough on an interesting brain teaser, or if you are implementing a wonderful project or just doing anything [...]

Three weeks ago our litte community on bigdata had their 7th meetup in Brussels. We think it is a good idea to hold our meetups in different cities, since we are the Belgian bigdata community. (If you can host a meetup in your city, please contact us!). Next to the typical  evening traffic chaos and [...]

So it has been a whlie since we held our first meetup on July 5th, 2011. We had a lively discussion on ideas, wants and won’ts for our young but apparently vibrant community. After some discussion in our group, we prefer to setup our meetups using a rotating schedule over Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at an [...]

We have all been anxiously waiting for that special day on which we may kick some life into our community. For those who have no idea what I’m talking about: The Belgian BigData launch event will take place tomorrow in Ghent! There are a few things we would like to talk about, but most importantly [...]

It is time to meet up in real life! IBBT in Ghent, is so kind to host our very first meeting and you are invited. We have created a meetup-page and would like to ask you to subscribe, if you are interested in joining us for an informal  #bbuzz debrief and community introduction.  The event [...]

After 2 intensively immersive days on big data at the Berlin Buzzwords (#bbuzz) conference in Berlin, the bigdata.be crew is back in Belgium again. Those two days were a rollercoaster ride of meeting smart people and listening to great talks on everything big data, NoSQL datastores and scalable search. There were quite some bigdata.be people present [...]

We have been discussing it for a while now and we believe the time is right to start a big data community in our little part of the world. We stand for a group of people that have to deal with building or using solutions for the ever growing data needs of our employers or [...]