ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces RapidMiner Studio, the community version of RapidMiner's commercial data mining and predictive analytics tool. RapidMiner Studio supports most of the features seen with RapidMiner's commercial product, making it an excellent tool for learning about data mining and analysis. RapidMiner shows one how to design problem-solving models from start to finish. However, the community version also provides several templates to use and modify as desired. Templates can oftentimes be a real timesaver when solving complex problems. RapidMiner uses a workflow paradigm for building models to solve complex problems. RapidMiner's software platform offers several options for interacting with its interface. The chapter focuses on showing one how to use RapidMiner to design and execute workflows that solve problems with the techniques discussed in this text. It presents screenshot enhancements designed for readability. The chapter shows how to use the workflow structure offered by RapidMiner to solve problems of one's own choosing.
