“My teaching materials are based on the official KNIME course slides, which are thankfully available to me as a member of the KNIME Educators Alliance. My membership also enabled me to supplement my teaching with a guest lecture with Dr. Stefan Helfrich from the KNIME Educators Alliance team. He broadened the students’ understanding of business analytics and provided an overview of the breadth of training opportunities available for KNIME.”
Gero Holthoff, Professor for Management Accounting, THM Business School
“Based on personal experience with a multitude of analytics tools available in the market, I can attest that KNIME offers one of the most comprehensive data access and data processing capabilities, modeling building and testing functions for a wide range of machine learning algorithms, data visualization and deployment options. An initial installation of KNIME comes with more than 2,000 native nodes (functions embedded in visual/graphical icons) to do almost everything a data scientist needs to do in analytics projects, although most common analytics tasks can be achieved with less than 30 nodes [2]. If these native nodes are not enough, one can build his/her own node, or use some of the nodes built by the community members (KNIME Community Extensions), integrate with current scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, R, JavaScript), and/or integrate with popular reporting tools. A strong and active community that provides support and freely available learning materials and example workflows for teaching is also a differentiator.”
Dursun Delen, Ph.D., is the William S. Spears Endowed Chair in Business Administration, Patterson Family Endowed Chair in Business Analytics, director of research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation, and Regents Professor of management science and information systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University.