Will they blend? Experiments in Data & Tool Blending

Have you seen the new post series on the KNIME blog? Yes, yes, the one about data blending!

It just started. On November 7th 2016 the first blog post of the series was published: “IBM Watson meets Google API”. After that, 5 more blog posts have shown the KNIME users some of the blending capabilities of the tool they are using.

The more the series goes on, the more it looks as if everything is possible. You can blend IBM Watson APIs with Google APIs, Hadoop Hive and Excel files, but also Python and R models, PostGreSQL database tables and Twitter chats, and again ingredients from different cookie recipes. The strangest combinations of data formats, data sources, tools, and algorithms are made look easy and effortless through the KNIME workflows used in the posts.

The blog post always starts with a data analytics topic, like finding the secret ingredient(s) in new cookie recipes, and a consequent data blending challenge involving two or more data sources; it then continues with the KNIME workflow implemented for this challenge till the result and the conclusion: Yes, they blend!

Below is a summary of the combinations that have been experimented so far. More are to come, stay tuned!

If you do not see the combination that interests you, you can:

1.      Write a blog post yourself and submit it to [email protected]

2.      Write a request to [email protected] (in this case though you need to wait till the blog post has been written by someone else)

In any case, either you work with data from Hadoop, Excel, Twitter, or whatever else, keep an eye on the development of this post series! It looks as if it is worth it.

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• Twitter meets PostgreSQL. More than Idle Chat?
• R meets Python and KNIME. Embrace Freedom in the Data Science Lab
• MS Word meets Web Crawling. Identifying the Secret Ingredient