Teaching data science is not always glamorous: educators often have to spend a lot of time creating mock data to explain a concept, or a functionality, to students. This week, you’ll wear your teacher hat and create a file structure to explain the List Files/Folders node to your audience. Get ready to exercise your file generation skills, including filename processing.
Here is the challenge. Let’s use this thread to post our solutions to it, which should be uploaded to your public KNIME Hub spaces with tag JKISeason4-17 .
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I really really loved this challenge. You should give it a hard thought how to solve this, and it’s really useful to know how handy KNIME is handling files and folders (and names).
My solution to the challenge:
My workflow (tried to be straightforward with the annotations and comments):
I think my solution is not optimal, I’m really curious the other solutions and approaches. And of course I really appreciate any suggestion regarding my solution.
EDIT: My laptop didn’t like this challenge. I had to restart it, after creating the five thousand folders…
Find my submission : https://hub.knime.com/s/2CdiISIn_v-eaOgi .. just for ease i have filtered to 25 rows ( folders ) , as you remove the filter , you head the highway.