I just released an update of the book "KNIME Beginner's Luck" that includes the latest changes in KNIME 2.6.

Here are the most important changes:
      - New options to customize the GUI in the KNIME workbench (section 1.8)
      - the new Skip Lines advanced option in the File Reader (section 2.3: Advanced
         Reading Options)
      - the JFreeChart nodes (section 3.10)
      - new nodes for statistical hypothesis testing (section 4.4: Hypothesis Testing)
      - the new Java Snippet strategy including two Java Snippet nodes: one for more
        advanced Java programmers and one, easier, for non Java experts (section 5.4)
     - the new feature to reconfigure existing meta-nodes (section 5.6: Collpase
        pre-existing nodes into a meta-node)

If you have a two-year subscriptions and you will not receive the updated book in the next few days, please let me know.

Enjoy the new book!

In the  past 3 months I have written a book to help data miners to approach KNIME for the first time. I mean, KNIME is a graphical interface and therefore is very intuitive to use. However, it has grown so much in the past years that orientation inside KNIME is starting to become complicated. The book will guide new comers with their first steps into the KNIME environment.

The title of the book is "Knime Beginner's Luck". It was born from my lessons on KNIME and KNIME Reporting and it gives a quite detailed overview of the main tools and philosphy of the KNIME data analysis platform. The goal is to empower new KNIME users with the necessary knowledge to start analysing, manipulating, and reporting even on complex data. No previous knowledge of KNIME is required.

The book is now going through one more round of corrections by the KNIME people themselves and by an English native speaker. After it gets the "Imprimatur", it will be ready to be published.

I am currently exploring a few publishing options. Going through a traditional publishing house might be slow, but it might guarantee a more prefessional product. Going for self-publishing sites, like createspace.com and lulu.com, might be faster and cheaper, but the final result might not look so good (they usually give no warrantee about the final result). Another possibility is to publish it on my own as an eBook and to print it on demand.

Is out there anybody with publishing experience who can help me?