Over the past few years, we’ve tried to identify the most active KNIME contributors including technical support experts, educators and lecturers, component builders and developers, bloggers and YouTubers, and social media influencers.
Every month, users and KNIMERs submit nominations for the person who has contributed the most to the KNIME community that month. The person with the most votes becomes Contributor of the Month (COTM). The COTM gets a special badge on the KNIME forum, gets a shoutout on KNIME’s social account and in the monthly newsletter, gets a trophy, and is invited to attend an annual celebration in-person.
We are pleased to announce the key “KNIME contributors of the month” from September 2023 to July 2024.
September 2023: Angel Molina
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| 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 entertaining visuals. Ángel has started a weekly newsletter for the Spanish-speaking community. Follow Ángel on LinkedIn and Twitter. |
October 2023: Arief Rama Syarif
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| Arief is the first KNIME Certified Trainer in Indonesia, traveling across the country to teach data science to people of all ages. Arief is also a successful social media influencer helping to create awareness around data literacy amongst Indonesian-speaking users. Check out this website to learn more. Follow Arief on LinkedIn. |
November 2023: Robin Richter
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| 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 the data Connect events (check out the Data Connect: DACH Event from September) and a KNIME Certified Trainer. |
December 2023: Samuel Webb
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| Samuel is 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. Sam is also the author of the Slack Integration extension. |
January 2024: KNinjas JKI Challenges - Season 2
| Ryushi Seo ● Naoyoshi Yamamoto ● Bertold Balázs ● Hiroki Yoshida ● Luo Yuxi ● Anil Kumar Sharma ● Artem Ryasik ● Ángel Molina ● Heather Lambert |
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| These KNinjas solved all 30 challenges of the “Just KNIME It” Season 2. Their solutions were efficient, well-documented, and creative. They also greatly contributed to the upskilling of the KNIME community by sharing them on the KNIME Forum. |
February 2024: Manuel Schwarze
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| Manuel is the man behind the RDKit Nodes Feature extension, the developer wrapping the RDKit functionalities in KNIME nodes and sharing them on the KNIME Community Hub. Did you know that Manuel even created a wizard tool, called the RDKit Nodes Creation Wizards Feature, specifically to assist KNIME node developers? Check it out! |
March 2024: Takahiro Ohshima
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| Takahiro Ohshima is a KNIME Certified Trainer and also translated the book KNIME Beginners' Luck into Japanese. Other than co-organizing Data Talks events in the past for our community in Japan, he has also helped to develop novel KNIME nodes like the MarvinJS nodes and the ‘JChem Extensions’, which empower researchers to work with chemical structure data. Check out these nodes on the KNIME Community Hub. |
April 2024: Frank Acito
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| Dr. Frank Acito is professor emeritus at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, USA. He recently published a textbook, “Predictive Analytics with KNIME”. The book covers several analytics techniques for citizen data scientists using the KNIME Analytics Platform as its primary tool. |
May 2024: Hans Samson
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| Hans does a little bit of everything; he’s a contributing author for the journal “Low Code for Data Science” on Medium, he has been a speaker for some KNIME webinar, and he’s a long-time presence on the KNIME forum with many solutions provided. Check his article “Navigating the Data Science Learning Curve: 6 Essential Tips for Beginners” on the KNIME Blog. |
June 2024: Mike Wiegand
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| Mike Wiegand is a consultant and project manager who uses KNIME software extensively when creating solutions for clients. As a lead participant in the KNIME Community Hacking testing program, he has gone above and beyond in providing feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions to improve KNIME software for everyone. |
July 2024: Marcell Palfi
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| In his capacity as Head of Delivery, Data & Analytics at Datraction – a KNIME Partner – he recently presented a webinar highlighting how to transition from Alteryx to KNIME. He has also organized a KNIME Data Connect event for the Hungarian KNIME community, and is a KNIME Certified Trainer to boot. |
Join us virtually for a special Data Connect event on October 7. We will be streaming the award ceremony from the KNIME Berlin office at 11 AM EST, 8 AM PST, or 5 PM Berlin time CEST.
Previous COTM awardees, Raffaello Barri and Arjen Peters, will moderate the ceremony and hand out the COTM trophies to the newly elected awardees.
Before that we will hold a panel discussion on scaling KNIME for business and education and another titled "Learning from the best: Tips and tricks from KNIME KNinjas".
If you want to become a KNIME COTM in the coming months, share your knowledge and experience, engage with and inspire the community, and showcase your technical excellence in data science and KNIME.
If you want to nominate a KNIME expert for a COTM award, please submit your proposal anytime in the "COTM submission form".
Register now and get inspired by the short personal stories of how these newly minted KNinjas use KNIME to make sense of their data.