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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)

KNIME views


You can export the view contents to either the PNG or SVG files from the File | Export as menu. (The latter is only available when the KNIME SVG Support is installed.)

It is worth noting the other usual view controls. The File menu contains the Always on top and Close options, besides the previously discussed Export as menu. The first option allows you to compare the multiple views easily by having them side-by-side and still working with other windows.

The rest of the menus are related to HiLiting, which will be discussed soon.

The configuration of nodes usually includes an option of how many different values or how many rows should be used when you create the view. Because the views usually load all the data (or the specified amount) in the memory to have a resizable content, too many rows would require too much memory, while too many different values would make it hard to understand either the legends or the whole view in certain cases.

The mouse mode controls allow you to select...