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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)

JFreeChart


The JFreeChart nodes are not installed by default, but the extension is available from the standard KNIME update site under the name KNIME JFreeChart.

The common part of these nodes is that you have to specify the appearance of the result in advance, and the focus is not on the view, but on the resulting image port object.

In the General Plot Options Configuration tab, you can specify the type of the resulting image (PNG or SVG), the size, the title, colors, and the font size (relative to the standard font for each item printed).

You can use the port objects in the reports, but you can also use them to check certain properties if you iterate through a loop and convert the result with Image To Table.

It is important to note that the customizable JFreeChart View tab is only available in freshly executed nodes. The generated image can be visualized either using the view or the image output.

In the JFreeChart View tab, you can customize (from the context menu) almost every aspect of the...