My name is Neelesh. I’m new to KNIME and just completed the Level 1 training—really impressed by how intuitive and powerful this no-code analytics platform is.
As I continue my learning journey, I’d love to hear your perspectives on a few things:
What beginner workflows helped you the most when starting out?
Any tips, resources, or habits that accelerated your learning?
What are some common pitfalls or misconceptions that new users should watch out for?
Welcome to the KNIME Community!
I’m a KNIMEr today, but I’ve used the Analytics Platform before that at university and here’s some things I do until this day (although I am or should be a designated expert now ):
Google. Chances are very high somebody had your question before, and there’s a forum post (maybe even pointing to a workflow) that answers it.
When I found a node that I think is helpful in my use case, but I can’t figure out straight away how it works, I search it on the Community Hub and scroll down on the node page to find and download workflows that contain that node. It’s much easier figuring it out when it comes in an example and you can check how the data changes and how it was configured.
Most powerful node in my personal opinion: Groupby. Probably my most often used node and worth “learning”.
That’s what I can think of, but also curious to hear other answers
happy that you like KNIME. I fell in “love” with KNIME almost 8 years ago and I’m still here.
Everyone learns differently but in my case I just jumped into the cold water and tried to solve all my data related tasks with KNIME instead of Excel or Matlab. When I stucked somewhere I just asked google or here in the forum.
Today I would do the same but would ask LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini) as well.
As you discovered the L1 course I can highly recommend the L2/L3 ones to proceed. You don’t need all of them, but you get good help. There are also some youtube videos in the KNIME channel which you can discover.
But all in all: Just start using KNIME. Everyday. As much as possible.
Some random thoughts. Here’s a Medium article which provides useful tips.
A soon as you’re comfortable with basic I/O and data manipulation, learn how to use loops and flow variables. They’re both critical to employing the full power of Knime. There are lots of examples in the Forum and Hub.
@neelthack I have an article about how to learn knime linking to various resources. one important aspect is just to start trying to solve one of your own challenges with Kimme. You will continue to lean a lot.
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