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KNIME Essentials

By : Gábor Bakos
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KNIME Essentials

By: Gábor Bakos

Overview of this book

KNIME is an open source data analytics, reporting, and integration platform, which allows you to analyze a small or large amount of data without having to reach out to programming languages like R. "KNIME Essentials" teaches you all you need to know to start processing your first data sets using KNIME. It covers topics like installation, data processing, and data visualization including the KNIME reporting features. Data processing forms a fundamental part of KNIME, and KNIME Essentials ensures that you are fully comfortable with this aspect of KNIME before showing you how to visualize this data and generate reports. "KNIME Essentials" guides you through the process of the installation of KNIME through to the generation of reports based on data. The main parts between these two phases are the data processing and the visualization. The KNIME variants of data analysis concepts are introduced, and after the configuration and installation description comes the data processing which has many options to convert or extend it. Visualization makes it easier to get an overview for parts of the data, while reporting offers a way to summarize them in a nice way.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Installation of the reporting extensions


The standard KNIME desktop distribution does not contain reporting capabilities, but KNIME Report Designer and KNIME HTML/PDF Writer extensions are available from the standard KNIME update site to generate reports. The latter is optional and not covered in this book.

Note

This is not distributed under the standard KNIME open source license (based on GNU GPL). It is still free, but in this case you are not allowed to modify the master page of the report template.

We will cover the report designer in detail. KNIME uses Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) to design and generate reports. Eclipse BIRT has a large community, providing a lot of products and tools. You can check it on the eclipse marketplace at http://marketplace.eclipse.org/category/categories/birt. The Eclipse version for KNIME 2.8.x is 3.7.2, so you might want to filter accordingly. The marketplace client for Eclipse 3.7 is available from the main eclipse update site...