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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)

Visualizing models


In the previous chapter, we created a workflow to generate a grid. That must have looked pointless at that time, but now, we will move a bit forward and show an application. The GenerateGridForLogisticRegression.zip file contains the workflow demonstrating this idea with the iris dataset.

In this workflow, we use a setup very similar to the Generate Grid workflow till the preprocessing meta node, but in this case, we use the average of minimum and maximum values instead of creating NaN values when we generate a grid with a single value in that dimension. (This will be important when we apply the model.) We also modified the grid parameters to be compatible with the iris dataset. In the lower region of the workflow, we load the iris dataset from http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Iris, so we can create a logistic regression model with the Logistic Regression (Learner) node (it uses all numeric columns).

We would like to apply this model to both the data and the grid....