After a very long hiatus I present to my readers my first Rapidminer 5.0 video tutorial. Â Its just a quick 10 min introduction to the GUI and data import functions of Rapidminer 5.0. Â You’re gonna like the way it looks!
Video download link:Â Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #1
PS: I’m glad to be back guys. Leave me a comment if you want more, please stroke my fragile ego. LOL.
PPS: My Youtube Channel is here: Neuralmarkettrends1
PPPS: For those who want to follow along, see the original GE.xls file.
@Navin: I’m sorry but that would take way too long to do and is a university course in itself.
Great tutorial BUT one request: Can you some “for dummy” video on what to know before starting with RM statistics? Like I went through the manual and got a basic understanding for the program. But still, I don’t really know what most functions actually do. Otherwise keep it going. Really awesome how much you contribute to the RM community!
What you’re asking for is a university level introduction course. That would be several videos for sure, something which I don’t have the time to do right now but perhaps in the Spring 2011.
I have been using Google very extensively to gather my own references, slowly but surely I am starting to catch on to a couple of the concepts. There is a lot of instructional material on the web, there are a couple sites re RapidMiner and many, many papers on different aspects of Data Mining. The Weka site has a lot of reference material.
My method has been to search on every term used in these videos and read as much as possible about them, after a month or so I think I am starting to make progress with the concepts.
I have an idea that people who work in data mining have a significant amount of education and that data mining is a very specialized field.
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thank you Tom, I’ve enjoyed this tutorial very much and will recommend to my students
I’m glad you liked it Gladys, I hope your students like it too.
wow finally the kind of easy to follow tutorial i’m looking for. Thank you very much.
I’m glad it helped you.
Thanks Tom for a very clear and good introduction to RapidMiner. Truly made it easy to get it going fast without any previous knowledge from the application. Cheers and keep up the good work =)
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the videos.
I am trying to do the excel import you have shown in this video, but I dont have the check box named ‘use first row as column names’. Do you have an idea what is the problem? Do I need to install a newer version of Rapidminer (I have the version 5.1.003)?
Rita,
The newer versions of RM have an import wizard in the Read Excel operators. If you have that, I suggest you use it. It’s very slick and makes import Excel data a breeze.
Tom,
Do you know if RM has an issue with using the first row for names? I have tried several times but the check boxes for selecting a column or selecting variable type are inactive if RM automatically takes names from row 1.
The workaround i am using is to “guess value types” and then manually reenter the names. Have u faced this issues? Thx in adv..
Bala: That is strange, I’ve never had that problem. However, RM Read Excel
Operator can only read up to an Excel 2003 version file, are you in the
right format? I’ve always been able to load in an Excel file, select Name
from the pull down menu for my header row, and then modify the attributes.
Hi Thomas,
I am very happy you decided to do this tutorial, I am new to data mining and I took one course which was very theoretical. I like rapid miner and I want to use it for a research in student’s retention. Do you think it will be useful or do you have another suggestion? Also I tried to find the written tutorial, can you provide the link for me.
Awatif
Awatif, I’m glad you liked the tutorials. As far as the written ones go, they are very old. They were the first tutorials on YALE/Rapidminer 4.X. They can be found as written blog posts at the bottom of my tutorial page.
As far as student retention goes, I suspect you’d have to think about all the variables that go into retaining a student. Is it the grade? The time (week count) spent in a class? The gender of the person? Etc. I suggest searching the internet for some previous work, work that you can recreate in RM. Good luck.
Thanks Thomas,
I need to learn Rapid Miner and really enjoy your tutorials.
Simone
You will like RM a lot, good luck Simone!
Hi Tom – yes. I made sure that i have an excel 2003 version file. I wonder if it is related to Windows 7 Home Premium version i use … Thanks.
I’m not sure what it could be without looking at your XML process file, but I don’t have time to do that. Perhaps you can post your problem to the Rapid-I forum?