<s>
KNIME	B-Language
(	O
)	O
,	O
the	O
Konstanz	O
Information	O
Miner	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
free	B-License
and	I-License
open-source	I-License
data	B-General_Concept
analytics	I-General_Concept
,	O
reporting	O
and	O
integration	O
platform	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
KNIME	B-Language
integrates	O
various	O
components	O
for	O
machine	O
learning	O
and	O
data	B-Application
mining	I-Application
through	O
its	O
modular	O
data	O
pipelining	O
"	O
Building	O
Blocks	O
of	O
Analytics	O
"	O
concept	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
graphical	B-Application
user	I-Application
interface	I-Application
and	O
use	O
of	O
JDBC	B-Language
allows	O
assembly	O
of	O
nodes	O
blending	O
different	O
data	O
sources	O
,	O
including	O
preprocessing	O
(	O
ETL	O
:	O
Extraction	O
,	O
Transformation	O
,	O
Loading	O
)	O
,	O
for	O
modeling	O
,	O
data	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
and	O
visualization	O
without	O
,	O
or	O
with	O
only	O
minimal	O
,	O
programming	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
2006	O
,	O
KNIME	B-Language
has	O
been	O
used	O
in	O
pharmaceutical	O
research	O
,	O
it	O
also	O
used	O
in	O
other	O
areas	O
such	O
as	O
CRM	O
customer	O
data	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
,	O
business	B-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
,	O
text	B-Algorithm
mining	I-Algorithm
and	O
financial	O
data	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Recently	O
attempts	O
were	O
made	O
to	O
use	O
KNIME	B-Language
as	O
robotic	O
process	O
automation	O
(	O
RPA	O
)	O
tool	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
KNIME	B-Language
's	O
headquarters	O
are	O
based	O
in	O
Zurich	O
,	O
with	O
additional	O
offices	O
in	O
Konstanz	O
,	O
Berlin	O
,	O
and	O
Austin	O
(	O
USA	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Development	O
of	O
KNIME	B-Language
was	O
started	O
January	O
2004	O
by	O
a	O
team	O
of	O
software	O
engineers	O
at	O
University	O
of	O
Konstanz	O
as	O
a	O
proprietary	O
product	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
platform	O
was	O
intended	O
to	O
be	O
a	O
collaboration	O
and	O
research	O
platform	O
and	O
also	O
serve	O
as	O
an	O
integration	O
platform	O
for	O
various	O
other	O
data	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2006	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
KNIME	B-Language
was	O
released	O
and	O
several	O
pharmaceutical	O
companies	O
started	O
using	O
KNIME	B-Language
and	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
life	O
science	O
software	O
vendors	O
began	O
integrating	O
their	O
tools	O
into	O
KNIME	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
2012	O
,	O
KNIME	B-Language
is	O
in	O
use	O
by	O
over	O
15,000	O
actual	O
users	O
(	O
i.e.	O
</s>
<s>
Latest	O
updates	O
to	O
KNIME	B-Language
Server	O
and	O
KNIME	B-Language
Big	B-Application
Data	I-Application
Extensions	O
,	O
provide	O
support	O
for	O
Apache	B-Language
Spark	I-Language
2.3	O
,	O
Parquet	O
and	O
HDFS-type	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
the	O
sixth	O
year	O
in	O
a	O
row	O
,	O
KNIME	B-Language
has	O
been	O
placed	O
as	O
a	O
leader	O
for	O
Data	O
Science	O
and	O
Machine	O
Learning	O
Platforms	O
in	O
Gartner	O
's	O
Magic	O
Quadrant	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
KNIME	B-Language
allows	O
users	O
to	O
visually	O
create	O
data	O
flows	O
(	O
or	O
pipelines	O
)	O
,	O
selectively	O
execute	O
some	O
or	O
all	O
analysis	O
steps	O
,	O
and	O
later	O
inspect	O
the	O
results	O
,	O
models	O
,	O
using	O
interactive	O
widgets	O
and	O
views	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
KNIME	B-Language
is	O
written	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
and	O
based	O
on	O
Eclipse	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
core	O
version	O
already	O
includes	O
hundreds	O
of	O
modules	O
for	O
data	O
integration	O
(	O
file	O
I/O	O
,	O
database	O
nodes	O
supporting	O
all	O
common	O
database	O
management	O
systems	O
through	O
JDBC	B-Language
or	O
native	O
connectors	O
:	O
SQLite	O
,	O
MS-Access	O
,	O
SQL	O
Server	O
,	O
MySQL	O
,	O
Oracle	O
,	O
PostgreSQL	O
,	O
Vertica	O
and	O
H2	O
)	O
,	O
data	O
transformation	O
(	O
filter	O
,	O
converter	O
,	O
splitter	O
,	O
combiner	O
,	O
joiner	O
)	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
the	O
commonly	O
used	O
methods	O
of	O
statistics	O
,	O
data	B-Application
mining	I-Application
,	O
analysis	O
and	O
text	B-Algorithm
analytics	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
KNIME	B-Language
workflows	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
data	O
sets	O
to	O
create	O
report	O
templates	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
exported	O
to	O
document	O
formats	O
such	O
as	O
doc	O
,	O
ppt	O
,	O
xls	O
,	O
pdf	O
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
capabilities	O
of	O
KNIME	B-Language
are	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
KNIMEs	B-Language
core-architecture	O
allows	O
processing	O
of	O
large	O
data	O
volumes	O
that	O
are	O
only	O
limited	O
by	O
the	O
available	O
hard	O
disk	O
space	O
(	O
not	O
limited	O
to	O
the	O
available	O
RAM	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
KNIME	B-Language
allows	O
analysis	O
of	O
300	O
million	O
customer	O
addresses	O
,	O
20	O
million	O
cell	O
images	O
and	O
10	O
million	O
molecular	O
structures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additional	O
plugins	O
allows	O
the	O
integration	O
of	O
methods	O
for	O
text	B-Algorithm
mining	I-Algorithm
,	O
Image	O
mining	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
time	O
series	O
analysis	O
and	O
network	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
KNIME	B-Language
integrates	O
various	O
other	O
open-source	O
projects	O
,	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
machine	O
learning	O
algorithms	O
from	O
Weka	B-Language
,	O
H2O.ai,	O
Keras	B-Algorithm
,	O
Spark	B-Language
,	O
the	O
R	B-Language
project	I-Language
and	O
LIBSVM	B-Language
;	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
plotly	B-Application
,	O
JFreeChart	B-Language
,	O
ImageJ	B-Language
,	O
and	O
the	O
Chemistry	B-Language
Development	I-Language
Kit	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
KNIME	B-Language
is	O
implemented	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
nevertheless	O
it	O
allows	O
for	O
wrappers	O
calling	O
other	O
code	O
in	O
addition	O
to	O
providing	O
nodes	O
that	O
allow	O
to	O
run	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
R	B-Language
,	O
Ruby	B-Language
and	O
other	O
code	O
fragments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
version	O
2.1	O
,	O
KNIME	B-Language
is	O
released	O
under	O
GPLv3	O
with	O
an	O
exception	O
that	O
allows	O
others	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
well	O
defined	O
node	O
API	O
to	O
add	O
proprietary	O
extensions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
allows	O
also	O
commercial	O
SW	O
vendors	O
to	O
add	O
wrappers	O
calling	O
their	O
tools	O
from	O
KNIME	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Even	O
though	O
Data	O
Science	O
assumes	O
programming	O
skills	O
,	O
KNIME	B-Language
allows	O
Data	B-General_Concept
Analysts	I-General_Concept
practice	O
Data	O
Science	O
without	O
one	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
study	O
KNIME	B-Language
provides	O
two	O
lines	O
of	O
online	O
courses	O
based	O
on	O
Data	O
Wrangling	O
and	O
Data	O
Science	O
lines	O
.	O
</s>
