In my previous two blog postings in this series, I’ve covered the basics of the dice game Farkle and developed a simple way of modeling…
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In the first part of this blog series, I introduced the dice game called Farkle and explored some of its basic statistics related to the…
My wife and I love to Farkle and it drives our kids crazy. Don’t be offended; Farkle is a dice game played with six dice…
In my previous blog posting, I started to explore what it would take to teach a machine learning model how to throw a virtual football…
With the Super Bowl just around the corner here in the United States, I recently found myself trying to think of a football-themed blog posting. …
KNIME and the JSON Format The JSON data-interchange format is a widespread data format roughly comparable with XML. KNIME has excellent interoperability with data in…
I have been a full-time telecommuter over 18 years so when I am not on a conference call, I am usually listening to music while…
I believe that parents fall into two categories during the holiday season. Those who are buying Legos by the pound with the belief they are…
Continuing the holiday theme of my previous blog entry, today I decided to write a quick post on how to generate fractal snowflakes using KNIME,…
With the holiday season in the United States rapidly approaching, I thought I’d have some fun with this blog posting. So rather than giving you…
I was recently tasked with loading a lot of historical json files into a database. I wanted to use KNIME to create a repeatable workflow…
In my previous blog posting, I introduced an issue we were having with seemingly random intermittent failures using Amazon Web Services’ Athena backed by a…
I recently came across a situation where I needed to load a couple of table partitions. I wanted to automate this process and have a…
Recently, we began experiencing seemingly random intermittent failures in one of our modeling workflows used in VANE, an advanced predictive analytics project we are building…
Yesterday I had to import an XML file into a series of relational database tables. I started by thinking of the best way to import…
The Postgres COPY command is the most efficient way to load CSV data into a Postgres database. RDS provides a small challenge to the use…
URL manipulation is one of those things you may not even think about until it becomes the biggest headache of your week. Thankfully KNIME has…
In an earlier blog posting I walked through the steps required to install KNIME in a Docker container so that it could be used to…
KNIME workflows can contain a lot of code and, like all good programmers, I always want to eliminate as many code changes as possible. To…
When using the open source KNIME Analytics Platform to build sophisticated data processing and analysis pipelines, I often find myself building workflows that consist of…