From the course: Introduction to Machine Learning with KNIME
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Accessing data - KNIME Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Machine Learning with KNIME
Accessing data
- [Instructor] Okay let's talk a little bit about accessing data. So naturally one place that we might look is to go to the IO folder here and specifically to read and we see that we have a number of choices. The things is though, if you're new to KNIME, should you be using let's say a file reader or a table reader? So let's take a quick look at the two descriptions and we see that the file reader node, I'm going to get the console out of the way so we can see this more clearly. This node can be used to read data, it can be configured to read various formats, that's kind of the key phrase, okay? In contrast, the table reader is actually a proprietary KNIME format so if you export data to a table and then read it in as a table, you'll get some efficiencies, things will run a little bit faster in KNIME, but it's generally speaking not the one you want. So in short, file reader is more than likely the way to go, however, I'm going to encourage you to be a bit more persistent than this…
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