KNIME (Konstanz Information Miner) 是一个用户友好，智能的，并有丰演的开源的数据集成，数据处理，数据分析和数据勘探平台。它给了用户有能力以可视化的方式创建数据流或数据通道，可选择性地运行一些或全部的分析步骤，并以后面研究结果，模型 以及 可交互的视图。 KNIME 由Java写成，其基于 Eclipse 并通过插件的方式来提供更多的功能。通过以插件的文件，用户可以为文件，图片，和时间序列加入处理模块，并可以集成到其它各种各样的开源项目中。

The KNIME Cookbook                                                                        Recipes for the KNIME advanced user
ContentThis book is the much awaited sequel to the introductory text “KNIME Beginner’s Luck”.  Building upon the reader’s first experience with KNIME, this book presents some more advanced features, like looping, selecting workflow paths, workflow variables, reading and writing data from and to a database, running R scripts from inside a workflow, and more.
All new concepts, nodes, and features are demonstrated through worked examples and the learned knowledge is reinforced with exercises. All example workflows, exercise solutions, and data sets are available on line.
The goal of this book is to elevate your data analysis from a basic exploratory level to a more professionally organized and complex structure.