By Gregory Piatetsky, @kdnuggets.

Here are upcoming April - October 2015 meetings and conferences.

For full list see www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/ page.



From 100+ meetings (counting all Big Data Week locations separately), top countries are (note that US has about 50% share)

• USA, 51
• UK, 9
• Germany, 5
• France, 5
• Switzerland, 4
• Canada, 4

 
Top States in US are:

• CA, 18
• MA, 10
• IL, 8
• NY, 6
• GA, 3

 
Top cities (globally) are:

• Chicago, IL, USA: 8
• Boston, MA, USA: 8
• New York, NY, USA: 6
• San Francisco, CA, USA: 5
• London, UK: 5
• Santa Clara, CA, USA: 4
• San Diego, CA, USA: 4
• San Jose, CA, USA: 3
• Hamburg, Germany: 3
• Atlanta, GA, USA: 3

 
Here are the upcoming meetings.

Color code: Business-Oriented meetings in Blue, Research meetings in green

April

• Apr 7, San Diego April Predictive Analytics Meetup. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Apr 8, Analytics 360 Symposium. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.
• Apr 12-14, INFORMS Business Analytics and Operations Research Conference. Huntington Beach, CA, USA.
  
  
• Apr 16, Big Data 2015, CrossRoads Technology Exchange. New York, NY, USA.
• Apr 20, 2015 Analytics Applications Summit, free event at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. Harrisburg, PA, USA.
• Apr 20-21, Monetising Big Data in Telecoms, World Summit. Singapore.
• Apr 20-22, PASS Business Analytics Conference. Santa Clara, CA, USA.
• Apr 20-26, BigDataWeek, in Atlanta | Barcelona | Basel | Belfast | Berlin | Bern | Bournemouth | Budapest | Chicago | Harwell | Hull | Kuala Lumpur | London | Madrid | Missoula | Montreal | New York | Nova Scotia | Perth | Saint John | Sao Paulo | Toronto | Wallonia| Warsaw | Zurich.
• Apr 21-22, Big Data and Analytics Innovation Summit. Hong Kong, China.
  
  
  
• Apr 23, Big Data Week Conference. Belfast, UK.
• Apr 23-24, GBDC: Real-Time Big Data Developer Conference, (focus on Spark, Storm, Flink, Kafka). Santa Clara, CA, USA.
• Apr 24-25, Text by the Bay, a new NLP conference bringing together researchers and practitioners, using computational linguistics and text mining to build new companies. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Apr 26-28, Big Data TechCon, the "HOW-TO" big data event - use code BIGDATA for $200 discount. Boston, MA, USA.
  
  
• Apr 28-29, Data Visualization Innovation Summit. San Jose, CA, USA.
  
  
  
• Apr 28-29, Big Data Innovation Summit. San Jose, CA, USA.
• Apr 28-29, Chief Data Officer Summit. San Jose, CA, USA.
• Apr 28-30, Big Data in Healthcare. Boston, MA, USA.
• Apr 29-30, Social Media & Web Analytics Innovation. San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
  
  
• Apr 29-30, Gaming Analytics Summit. San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Apr 30, Wharton Annual Conference, Successful Applications of Customer Analytics. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Apr 30 - May 2, SDM 2015: The Fifteenth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Vancouver, BC, Canada.