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KNIME Essentials

You're reading from  KNIME Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849699211
Pages 148 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gábor Bakos Gábor Bakos
Profile icon Gábor Bakos

Importing data


There are many options to import data to a report. For example, you can use SQL databases and access them through JDBC; however, you can also use this feature to import KNIME nodes' exported tabular content with a proper JDBC driver, although this is not the recommended way.

The Data menu can be used to create a new data set, data cube, or data source.

Sending data and images to a report

The first thing you might notice after the install is that you have a new category named Reporting with two new nodes within Node Repository. The Data to Report node brings a table to the report as a data source and creates a data set for it.

There are not many configuration options here; one is where you can set how images within the table should be handled. For example, an image can be resized to a fixed size. Here, ideally the best option would be to use SVG, although using SVG is a bit harder. The node description gives a detailed description on how to use them; however, unfortunately, the...

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