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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)

Generating reports


At the end, the goal is to have a nice document with all the data transformed according to the report design.

To export rptdocument (the report document), navigate to Run | Generate Document. This way, you will be able to use this in other frameworks compatible with BIRT, such as a report server. For details check the BIRT integration guide:

http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/

When you want to export the report in a more static format, you should select one of the options in Run | View Report, or use the icon that resembles "Earth" from the icon's menu to access the same options. The default installation has the following options to export the document: Web Viewer (it is an interactive local or remote report viewer), doc, HTML, odp, ods, odt, pdf, postscript, ppt, and xls.

Note

The ppt support is not ideal; visit the following link for more information:https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=328982

When you either generate or just view the report, you will be...