Summary

By completing this chapter, you have made decisive progress in becoming a confident user of data analytics. You have learned how to provide some logic structure to your database by creating a simple entity-relationship model. You have also experienced the essential operations for transforming data assets, such as combining tables and aggregating values as needed. Your analytics toolbox is getting fatter: with fourteen more KNIME nodes at your disposal, you can now build some simple descriptive analytics workflows and automate their executions through loops and variables. The full tutorial has allowed you to gather first-person experience in building a machine that provides systemic answers to recurring needs, starting from a set of business questions and delivering a repeatable process to answer them.

In the next chapter, we will get all of this to the next level by introducing the fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence: we will soon discover how to build machines...