KNIME Basics & Twitter Text Analysis
- Date
- Tuesday 4 April 2017, 9:30am - 4:30pm
- Location
- Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, Level 11, Worsley Building, University of Leeds, Clarendon Way, Leeds, LS2 9NL
- External URL
- http://store.leeds.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/environment/geography/introduction-to-knime-april-2017
- Category
- CDRC Training
KNIME Analytics Platform is the leading open-source solution for data-driven innovation, helping you discover the potential hidden in your data, mine for fresh insights, or predict new futures. KNIME allows users to visually create data flows (or pipelines), selectively execute some or all analysis steps, and inspect the results and models with interactive views. With more than thousand modules, hundreds of ready-to-run examples, and the widest choice of advanced algorithms available, KNIME Analytics Platform is the perfect toolbox for any data scientist. Additional plugins allow the integration of methods for Text mining, Image mining, as well as time series analysis.
Programme objectives
- To introduce KNIME Analytics platform to the participants
- To introduce workflow-based approach for data analytics
- To apply machine learning techniques on data using KNIME
- To perform text analytics in KNIME
Who teaches the programme
The workshop will be led by Dr Sajid Siraj who is Lecturer in Business Analytics and Decision Science at Centre for Decision Research in Leeds University Business School. His research interests mainly lie in the areas of data analytics and decision making. He has used his skills in various areas including seismic data processing, telecom call detail records processing and profiling, and developing decision support systems.
To get most out of this workshop, you should:
- Know the use of Microsoft Excel (or any similar spreadsheet-based software).
- Know fundamentals of statistics (e.g. descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing).
- Have a Twitter account (if you’re interested in downloading tweets for text analytics).
The following will be beneficial, although not necessary:
- Computer programming and/or scripting skills.
- Basic knowledge of supervised and unsupervised machine learning
Costs
Students: £60
University staff, public and charitable sector staff: £100
Private Sector: £300
Provisional agenda
09:30 Introduction to the KNIME Workbench
10:00 Loading data from Excel
10:30 Table operations (column and row operations)
11:00 Break
11:30 Grouping data based on categorical variables
12:00 Visualizing data in bar and line plots etc.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Introduction to Text processing
14:30 Creating Twitter account and Getting API keys
15:00 Break
15:30 Capturing live tweets using Twitter API
16:30 Closing day 1