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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)

Data generation


There is a KNIME Labs plug-in named KNIME Datageneration (http://tech.knime.org/datageneration). It gives support to generate values from different distributions for existing rows to new columns:

  • Random Number Assigner: It supports uniform distribution

  • Gaussian Distributed Assigner: It supports Gaussian distribution

  • Beta Distributed Assigner: It supports beta distribution

  • Gamma Distributed Assigner: It supports gamma distribution

To generate rows with numeric content, the most obvious node is Data Generator. It generates data for clusters of normally distributed data for various dimensions with different cluster centers on the [0,1] interval. It also generates the cluster labels.

To generate empty rows for existing tables, the Add Empty Rows node gives options. You might also want to create a table specification before you add (new or additional) empty rows. This can be done using the Create Table Structure or the Table Creator nodes. Both are manual, but if you have a tab...