New user here!! I hope this is the right place for this. I recently started working with KNIME (got the L2 cert last week) after 10+ years with Alteryx.
I love KNIME already. I`m able to build somewhat complex workflows with APIs, loops and components (which I’m already very proud of! ) but there are a lot of things that come with experience and that we cannot learn by simply doing the learning paths.
What are the things you wish someone had told you when you started working with KNIME? Best practices, nodes, learning resources, anything at all.
All articles come with ready made example workflows.
Then another great resource some people still don’t know about are the collections about different topics (like starter collection). Mixture between short texts, examples and links to articles:
This may seem a little off topic, but if you’re running Gemini in Google Chrome you can preface a prompt with “Knime” and get a fairly detailed reponse. As with any AI generated answer there can be problems but I’ve found this a pretty good place to start rather than manually searching the Forum or Hub. Its less robust for very complicated problems. Here’s an example. (I saved this with SnagIt which jumbled the jpg slightly, but this will give you an idea.)
I was using the Knime Guide, one of the GPTs in ChatGPT. It doesn’t always get things right, but it is helpful as well. I will test Gemini and see if it produces better answers!
Thanks for sharing, @rfeigel . I will definitely check that out!
If you’re already an experienced alteryx user you have a very solid base so you’ll get familiar with knime in no time! - Judging by your L2 cert and ability to build complex workflows you’re already past that stage!
In addition to the great resources referenced above , I can also reccomend recreating your existing alteryx projects as a very useful & “hands on” approach to learning, your brain seems to remember those much better (at least mine works so ) . Also it really boils down to where your interest/ professional niche is - in addition to the “core’ features , you could explore text processing , ML , geospatial & many other extensions
If you have anything particularity challenging, something that alteryx did better at first glance, please let us know. There are a lot of Knimers, including me, who would like to cover that blind spot and help former altreryx users to switch to the bright sight (just joking)
I recently found out that from within KNIME on Windows you can call WSL2 on the same machine (I used a Python script) to run Linux executables that are not available for Windows.
with Alteryx.
) but there are a lot of things that come with experience and that we cannot learn by simply doing the learning paths.
) . Also it really boils down to where your interest/ professional niche is - in addition to the “core’ features , you could explore text processing , ML , geospatial & many other extensions 