Data 2.0 Chicago is the Midwest arm of the DataWeek.co and Data2Summit.com events in San Francisco. We host over 500 innovative data companies from Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce to MongoDB, Kaggle, and InfoChimps at our yearly conferences & summits. Topics cover big data, cloud data, NoSQL, API's and mashups, open data initiatives, and data platforms. The Data 2.0 meetup group is for entrepreneurs, data scientists, investors, engineers, database admins, data architects, and professionals in …

It was fall 2006 when Charith Premawardhana, a classically trained violist and a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, moved into the city’s Mission District and discovered Revolution Cafe. A headquarters for the District’s eclectic arts-and-music scene, the “Rev” hosts free live music — jazz, blues, folk — played by the city’s finest musicians. But missing from the scene at the time was classical music, so the management at the Cafe asked Premawardhana to book a night of chambe …

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