We have already blogged on the RapidMiner Community Extension here and here . The community extension enables you to share your RapidMiner workflows with a large comunity of data miners all over the world on the community platform myExperiment.org.

 This can be a great benefit: You can learn about (and from) other people's work, make your own work more visible, get new ideas, and make friends with other data miners. I just made a small video showing how it works. Here it is:

Since our start on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, more than 200 people stated on Facebook that they like RapidMiner, the company Rapid-I, or other Rapid-I products. We highly appreciate that and we promise to do our best to further improve RapidMiner for our community!

This blog is another initiative to give you the latest updates fresh from the Rapid-I labs and to have a place where we can discuss topics related to RapidMiner or data analysis in general.

 And last but not least the community meeting RCOMM 2010 was a great success! Personally, I was surprised about the many great initiatives coming from the RapidMiner community and I am happy to see all the great new things which have already been published or are about to come. Thanks everybody!

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Good news for the users of the RapidMiner Community Extension. Up to now, 50 RapidMiner processes were uploaded to the myExperiment portal and can directly be browsed and downloaded into RapidMiner.

MyExperiment is a community website where people share workflows of various kinds. It is an active community, and the portal comes with all the nice social network features:

In one of our previous blog posts , we have described the Community Extension for RapidMiner in detail. The Community  Extension directly connects to myExperiment which means that you can easily upload the process you are currently working on with a single click. The extension also allows to browse RapidMiner processes on myExperiment and download them to your local machine directly from within RapidMiner.

I really like the idea of a data-mining-process-wiki which can serve as a common knowledge source for data analysts worldwide. And I am happy that so many people already wanted to share this knowledge with others, for example this nice process which can be used to replace missing values with other attributes' values:

More information about how to use the Community Extension can be found at http://www.e-lico.eu/?q=node/226

So you should download the extension from our update- and installation server in the Help menu of RapidMiner, activate the myExperiment view in the View menu and start to up- and download processes. Happy sharing!

We have released a new Community Extension for RapidMiner a few weeks ago which you can use to share your RapidMiner and RapidAnalytics processes with data miners all over the word.

Some of you may know the http://www.myexperiment.org/ portal. MyExperiment is a community website where people share workflows of various kinds. It is an active community, and the portal comes with all the nice social network features. The new Community Extension directly connects to myExperiment which means that you can easily upload the current process with a single click. The extension also allows to browse RapidMiner processes on myExperiment and download them to your local machine directly from within RapidMiner.

You should really consider to share interesting data analysis and data transformation processes with others. Why? Well, the obvious answer is that you can discuss your data mining processes with others, exchange workflows with them, and meet data miners working on similar problems which might give you some fresh ideas.

But there is a much more important reason: If you participate in myExperiment and share your RapidMiner processes with the new Community Extension, we all will be finally build a "data analysis process Wiki". I imagine this as a place, where processes for different kinds of problems just wait to be discovered. And just as for the original idea of Wikipedia, the whole thing will only work if people start to share their knowledge with others while hoping that somebody else's knowledge will help them back some day.

More information about how to use the Community Extension can be found at http://www.e-lico.eu/?q=node/226

So you should download the extension from our update- and installation server in the Help menu of RapidMiner, activate the myExperiment view in the View menu and start to up- and download processes. Happy sharing!