Contributors of the Month - Hall of Fame

We are happy to announce Samuel Webb as the Contributor of the Month for Dec 2023. Sam was awarded the COTM of this month for being the man behind the development and maintenance of one of the most downloaded extensions of KNIME Analytics Platform: the Lhasa public plugin extension. A relatively small extension, with just 10 nodes, and yet very popular within the KNIME Community, it provides useful functionalities for model building and table manipulation, like performance scorer and table transformation nodes. By the way, Sam is also the author of the Slack Integration extension.

Thanks for your contributions to the KNIME community!

Each month, we highlight community members who are doing unique and interesting things with KNIME, or who are sharing useful data science tips and tricks.

This month, we welcome Robin Richter as COTM for November 2023! Robin is the author of the “From SPSS Modeler to KNIME” Transition booklet published under the KNIME Press, mapping the most commonly used SPSS Modeler functions and techniques to their KNIME equivalent. But that’s not all – he is also a speaker at our events (check out the Data Connect: DACH Event from September) and recently became a KNIME Certified Trainer.

Thanks for your contributions to the KNIME community!

Each month, we highlight community members who are doing unique and interesting things with KNIME, or who are sharing useful data science tips and tricks.

It is a no-brainer to have chosen Arief Rama Syarif as the KNIME COTM for October 2023. He is the first KNIME Certified Trainer in Indonesia, traveling across the country to teach people of all ages data science and rapidly growing the KNIME community in that area. Arief is also a successful social media influencer helping to create awareness of the importance of data literacy using KNIME amongst Indonesian-speaking users. Check out this website to learn more. Follow Arief on LinkedIn.

Thanks Arief for your contributions to the KNIME community!

Each month, we highlight community members who are doing unique and interesting things with KNIME, or who are sharing useful data science tips and tricks.

We're happy to announce Ángel Molina Laguna as KNIME COTM for September 2023! Ángel is one of the most enthusiastic voices in the KNIME community. His commitment to the weekly Just KNIME It challenges is regularly shared as valuable contributions on the KNIME Community Hub, and as social media posts with short educational videos and funny visuals. Recently, Ángel has also started a weekly newsletter to share with the Spanish-speaking community knowledge about data science, low code tools and visual programming. Follow Ángel on LinkedIn and Twitter.

We’re glad to announce Luo Yuxi as the COTM for August 2023! He was selected for his book, KNIME 视觉化数据分析 (KNIME Visual Data Analysis) which provides a comprehensive introduction to KNIME in Chinese. A Data Analyst and Software Developer, Luo is also an active KNIME forum participant.

We're happy to announce Artem Ryasik as KNIME COTM for July 2023! Artem is the prolific writer behind many excellent data stories that range from low code data anonymization to clustering techniques for analyzing knowledge graphs. His latest contributions shed light on conformal prediction, providing both theoretical insights and practical applications for classification and regression tasks. Recently, Artem also became a KNIME Certified Trainer, upskilling data professionals both inside and outside the organization. Read Artem’s Data Stories here.

This month, we welcome Arjen Peters as COTM for June 2023! Arjen has been a mainstay on the KNIME forum, and among all forum posters over the past year, he is a key leader for solutions proposed, likes received, and replies given. Whether he’s answering questions about data manipulation, troubleshooting models, or suggesting a few lines of RegEx, Arjen can always be found freely giving his time to make the KNIME forum a great resource for everyone.

We're happy to announce David Plummer as KNIME COTM for May 2023! David is the prolific writer behind many excellent data stories that masterfully blend KNIME with Python for enhanced data visualization themes or cluster analysis. The early adoption of KNIME modern UI in his data stories is further testimony to his commitment to always deliver content in step with the times. He also provides great support and feedback on the KNIME Forum.

This April, we are excited to announce James (김명석) Kim as our Contributor of the Month! James leads the partnership between KNIME and Zalesia, an Elite Partner in Korea. James has been a true ambassador for the Korean-speaking analytics community and serves on the board for KNIME Data Connect: Korea. He along with his team members has translated resources and has published Zalesia’s new book “Data Preprocessing and Integrated Analysis with KNIME" in Korean. You can find more material about KNIME in Korean on Zalesia’s YouTube channel and Blog. 

Cristian Rastasanu is a data analyst at Mydral, the organization formerly nominated as the KNIME Partner of the Year 2022. Cristian has built five KNIME components for financial analysis, and published them on the KNIME Verified Component page in December 2022. The components offer data analysts popular functions in the finance industry: NPV, XNPV, IRR, XIRR, and MIRR.

Dominique is the first author of the paper “TeachOpenCADD-KNIME: A Teaching Platform for Computer-Aided Drug Design Using KNIME Workflows” published in 2019 by the American Chemical Society. The paper describes a KNIME workflow for different computer-aided drug design (CADD) tasks: a valuable resource for teaching students and life sciences low-coders. The workflow, publicly available on the KNIME Community Hub, is divided into eight components ready for execution on some example data. There is a different component for each topic, such as how to fetch, filter and analyze compound data.
 

Stephen has been a longstanding member of the KNIME Community for many years, and as the developer of the Vernalis KNIME Nodes Extension, he is the author of over 250 nodes used for cheminformatics, remote data searching, and general utility functions. Apart from that, he also serves on the board for KNIME Data Connect: UK, and has been a speaker at several different KNIME events going back to 2013.

This month, we celebrate the best of the best in the Just KNIME It! (JKI) Challenges. Winners were chosen based on the number of submitted solutions, as well as their creativity, efficiency, and educational value. Yasue Katsutaka, Emiliano Amendola, Raffaello Barri, Anil Kumar Sharma are all KNinjas who went above and beyond in making blogs and amazing dashboards, helping the community on the KNIME Forum, and being a big part of our social media events!

Although long overdue, we are happy to announce Daniel Weikert as the COTM for November. Daniel has stood out as a community contributor with his Udemy courses on KNIME, teaching more than 6,000 users everything from how to get started with KNIME to how to convert from Excel to KNIME. Daniel has most recently presented an excellent webinar on the same topic, Excel to KNIME.  He’s passed his teaching evaluation to become a KNIME Certified Trainer. 

Talk about being an active KNIME community member! Kazutaka Watari aka @watarinko is a whirlwind: #66daysofdata Challenge ✔️L1 & L2 courses ✔️ L1 and L2 Certification Exams ✔️ Just KNIME It! Challenges ✔️ Sharing Solutions on the KNIME Hub ✔️ #100daysofdata Challenge ✔️ L4-ML course on Machine Learning algorithms ✔️Sharing Progress on Social Media ✔️