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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)

Suggested readings


In this chapter, we have covered the basics, but the BIRT ecosystem has much more to offer. The most important might be the way you can create interactive reports. Although there are highly interactive components available, such as the BIRT Interactive Viewer (http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/products/birt-user-experience/interactive-viewer/features/), which is not an open source option, you still have the option to change the behavior on certain conditions with JavaScript.

The Advanced BIRT Report Customization: Report Scripting video (from 2008) might be a good start towards scripting. You can view it after registration at the following link:

http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/info/birtscripting-websem/

There is a nice JavaScript library named D3.js (http://d3js.org), which allows you to have reports almost as interactive as the BIRT Interactive Viewer would offer for certain output formats. An example on how you can combine both BIRT and D3.js together can be found at http...