RapidMiner 4.6
User Guide
Operator Reference
Developer Tutorial2
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October 1, 2009Contents
1 Introduction 29
1.1 Modeling Knowledge Discovery Processes as Operator Trees . . 30
1.2 RapidMiner as a Data Mining Interpreter . . . . . . . . . . . 30
1.3 Di erent Ways of Using RapidMiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.4 Multi-Layered Data View Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.5 Transparent Data Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
1.6 Meta Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
1.7 Large Number of Built-in Data Mining Operators . . . . . . . . 33
1.8 Extending RapidMiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.9 Example Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
1.10 How this tutorial is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2 Installation and starting notes 37
2.1 Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.2.1 Installing the Windows executable . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.2.2 the Java version (any platform) . . . . . . . . 38
2.3 Starting RapidMiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.4 Memory Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2.5 Plugins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2.6 General settings ...
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