KNIME Capacity Building Program for

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Brief Introduction to
KNIME Analytics Platform

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Content of this lesson
 Download and Install
 The Workbench
 More on Nodes
 Metanodes and Components
 KNIME Community Hub
 Building your first „Hello World“ Workflow

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Datasets
 Dataset used: adult dataset
 Example Workflows:
 „My First Workflow“ (https://hub.knime.com/-/spaces/-/latest/~8HwhURN_OH6yh37q/)
 Read from CSV file
 Filter rows and columns
 Write to CSV file

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Download and Install

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KNIME Analytics Platform
 Open and opensource modular Data Science platform
 Covers all the data science needs:
Data Data
Data Access
Preparation Visualization

Machine
Testing Deployment
Learning

 Based on the visual programming paradigm

 Provides a diverse array of extensions:
 Text Mining
 Network Mining
 Cheminformatics
 Deep Learning
 Many integrations, such as Java, R, Python, Weka, Keras, Plotly, H2O, etc
 ... And more

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KNIME Hub
Blend & Transform Validate & Deploy

Model & Production Consume &

Creation Production
Visualize Process Interact

Optimize & Capture Monitor & Update

KNIME Analytics Platform KNIME Hub

Prepare & Build Collaborate & Deploy

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Installation

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 Select the KNIME Analytics Platform version for your computer:

 Mac
 Windows – 32 or 64 bit
 Linux
 Download the archive and extract the file, or download the installer package and
run it

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The Workbench

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The KNIME Workspace
 The workspace is the folder/directory in which workflows (and potentially data
files) are stored for the current session.
 Workspaces are portable (just like KNIME Analytics Platform)

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The KNIME Analytics Platform Workbench

KNIME Explorer

Node Description

Workflow Coach

Workflow Editor

KNIME Community Hub

Node Repository

Console & Node Monitor

Outline

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Workflow

A workflow is a pipeline of nodes, each configurable to perform a specific task.

The data flow through nodes from left to right

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KNIME Explorer

 In LOCAL you can access your own

workflow projects.
 Other mountpoints allow you to connect
to
 EXAMPLE Server
 KNIME Hub
 KNIME Server
 The Explorer toolbar on the top has a
search box and buttons to
 select the workflow displayed in the active editor
 refresh the view
 The KNIME Explorer can contain 4 types
of content:
 Workflows
 Workflow groups
 Data files
 Shared Components

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Creating a new workflow
Click anywhere on the KNIME Explorer to create a new workflow or workflow group

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 Importing and Exporting Workflows

Right-click anywhere in KNIME

Explorer to import a workflow Right-click on a workflow or
workflow group to export the
selected workflow

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Node Repository

 The Node Repository lists all

KNIME nodes

 The search box has 2 modes

 Standard Search – exact match of node
name
 Fuzzy Search – finds the most similar node
name

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Description

 The Description window gives

information about:
 Node Functionality
 Input & Output
 Node Settings
 Ports
 References to literature

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Workflow Description

 When selecting the workflow, the

Description window gives
information about the workflow’s:
 Title
 Description
 Associated Tags and Links
 Creation Date
 Author

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Workflow Coach
 Node recommendation engine
 Gives hints about which node to use next in the workflow
 Based on KNIME communities' usage statistics
 Based on your own KNIME workflows

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Console and Other Views

 Console view prints out error and

warning messages about what is
going on under the hood

 Click on View and select Other… to

add different views
 Node Monitor, Licenses, etc.

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More on Nodes

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More on Nodes…
 Nodes are the basic processing units of a workflow
 Each node has a number of input and/or output ports
 Data is transferred over a connection from an out-port to the in-port(s) of other
nodes
 Under each node, a traffic light shows its status

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Data Port Types
 A pipeline of such nodes makes a workflow
 The result of the node’s operation on the data is provided at the out-port to
successor nodes
 Only port of the same type can be connected

Model
Flow Variable

Image

Data DB Connection DB Data

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Node Configuration
 Most nodes require configuration
 To access a node configuration window:
 Double-click the node
OR
 Right-click > Configure

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Node Execution
 Right-click node
 Select Execute in context menu

If execution is successful, status shows green

light

If execution produces warnings, status show

yellow triangle

If execution encounters errors, status shows a

red X

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Node Views

Interactive View

Data View

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Frequently Used Nodes

Readers GroupBy
Writers

Filters Partitioning

Learners/Predictors

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Tidy up workflows
 Workflow can easily become complex and difficult to understand

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Metanodes and Components

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Tidy up workflows
 Metanodes and components can help tidying up, encapsulating nodes performing
common operations

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Components

Steps to build a component or a metanode

 Select related nodes that you want to group
 Right click
 Select Create component… or Create Metanode…
 Give it a name

Components have more sophisticated features:

 Encapsulate flow variables, i.e. the parameters only live inside the
component
 Provide a configuration window: variables and parameters
within the component can be edited by Right Click -> Configure…
 Build a composite view: Visualization inside the component can
be grouped in a dashboard

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Submenu Component
 Right click on the Component and select Setup… from the submenu Component
to access further customization settings, such as the component name and the
ports

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Inside a component

Shortcut:
Ctrl + double click on
component to open its
content

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Components Configuration Window

 Components can be configurable

 From the configuration window
(Right click -> Configure…) the
user can enter some parameters
 The entered parameters change
the behaviour of the nodes inside
the component

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Components Composite View

The visualization nodes

within the component can be
organized to build an
interactive composite view

You can organize and

reshape the node
views from the Visual
Layout window (from
inside the component,
last icon on the toolbar)

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Composite views interactivity

Enable publication and

subscription to selection events
to make the composite view
interactive: data selected in one
view are highlighted in the others

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KNIME Community Hub

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KNIME Community Hub

A place to share knowledge about Workflows and Nodes https://hub.knime.com

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KNIME Community Hub

Workflows

Nodes, Shared Components and

Extensions

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KNIME Community Hub Spaces

 Private Space
 Your personal space. Upload here your
workflows and components (max 1GB) to
have them always available in a central
place

 Public Space
 Shared with the KNIME community.
Everyone can find and download them
from the KNIME Hub

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Downloading and importing from KNIME Hub

Searching for the Tag

“theguidebook” will show you all
the workflows related to this book

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Downloading and importing from KNIME Hub
Method 1
Download the workflow, locate it
into your machine and import it
as seen before

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Downloading and importing from KNIME Hub
Method 2
Drag and drop the icon
directly into the KNIME Explorer
at the desired location

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KNIME Cheat Sheets

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KNIME Books

e-book downloads from KNIME Press

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Free Self-Paced Courses
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Build your first Hello Workflow

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Create your first workflow

Right Click on the LOCAL folder in the KNIME

Explorer and select New KNIME Workflow

From the pop up

window, insert the name
of your first workflow

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Read the dataset

Drag and drop the File

Reader node from the
Node Repository to add it
to the workflow

Open the configuration

window (double click) and
select the file on your
machine containing the adult
dataset

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Remove columns

Some columns have

unnecessary
information. Remove
them with a Column
Filter node

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Remove Rows

Add a Row Filter node and

configure it to only keep
entries whose “native-
country” value is not
“United-States”

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Write to new file

Finally add a CSV Writer node to the

pipeline.
Configure and execute it to write the
transformed dataset to a new file

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Annotations
 Annotations are coloured editable boxes that you can add to your workflow
 They help you making it more readable and visually pleasant

Click on the upper left

corner icon to
customize text and
appearance of an
annotation

Right click anywhere on your

workflow and add a New Workflow
Annotation from the context menu

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