In this beginner-friendly course, you're going to learn how to use - in my opinion - the best Robotic Process Automation tool on the market - Knime!
Course Outline
Install Knime & learn to navigate the interface
Solve 3 real world IT case studies with Knime, whilst showing you how to use the program at the same time
Case Study 1: Automate a Supermarket Sales Report
You’re going to create a workflow that automatically calculates the Profit for each Supermarket item based on Accounting data. You'll data cleanse the Aisle name, aggregate the results into a pivot table, and create some pretty charts for middle management that like to look at colourful pictures.
By solving this case study, you’ll learn how to use Knime to:
Read Excel files
Remove duplicates
Do an Inner & Left Join
Filter rows
Round numbers
Transform arithmetic, string, and conditional values
Create a pivot table
Do basic visualisation, and
Export to Excel
Case Study 2: Splitting & joining a HR report about Employee Cost
HR have a file that contains all employees in the company.
HR has asked you to split this file for them by Department so they can then email it to each Department Head and ask them to forecast the salary cost of each of their employees.
When the Department Heads have filled it in and emailed it back, HR wants you to combine all the forecasts back together into 1 file.
By doing this case study, you'll learn how to do the following in Knime:
Read Excel files
Use a Group By Loop
Use Flow Variables, and
Export to Excel
Case Study 3: Bitcoin arbitrage
Arbitrage is taking advantage of price differences of an asset. For example, Bitcoin might cost $25000 one exchange, and $30000 on another. Therefore, a price difference of $5000.
Arbitrage is buying Bitcoin on the cheaper exchange, and transferring to and selling it on the expensive exchange.
We’ll be using Knime to look up 3 Crypto Exchanges to get the price of Bitcoin against the USD, and identify if there’s any arbitrage opportunities.
Keep in mind, you won't make any money from doing this - you're like, 10 years too late where the price differences between exchanges used to be huge. This is really for educational purposes only. It's not financial advice, and don't be silly with your money.
By doing this case study, you'll learn how to do the following in Knime:
Use Flow variables
Create a GET API Request
Parse JSON To Table
Filter Columns
Transform string, and
Use Metanodes to tidy up a busy workflow
If you love the sound of all of this, then let's get started by learning how to install Knime and navigating the interface.