TIBCO Spotfire：A Comprehensive Primer（Second Edition）

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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer Second Edition

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Section 1: Introducing Spotfire

Welcome to Spotfire

Getting started with TIBCO Spotfire

Launching Spotfire Analyst

Logging in to TIBCO Cloud Spotfire

Downloading Spotfire Cloud Analyst

Installing the mobile apps and logging in to TIBCO Cloud

TIBCO Spotfire for macOS

Logging in to the Spotfire web clients (on-premises)

Spotfire licenses

Getting started with loading data

Importing Excel spreadsheets into Spotfire

Introduction to the data panel

The Spotfire recommendations engine

Saving Spotfire files

Saving a file in analyst clients

Saving a file in Spotfire Cloud or Business Author

Producing a useful interactive dashboard

Coloring

Proportionality with bar charts and pie charts

Drilling in to the data – details visualizations

Insights from details visualizations

Using filters

Trellising

Summary

It's All About the Data

Technical requirements

Understanding the basic row/column structure of a data table

Exploring key data types

Building a scatter plot with real-world data

Gathering population data

Gathering country and region data

Combining the data

What is a scatter plot?

Building the scatter plot using population growth versus child mortality

Working with natural hierarchies in data

Gaining insight from the scatter plot

Displaying information quickly in tabular form

Enriching visualizations with color categorization

Visualizing hierarchical data using treemaps

Summary

Impactful Dashboards!

KPI charts

Constructing a KPI chart

Coloring sorting and other customization of the KPI chart

Enabling end users to configure the KPI chart interactively

Framing your analysis using text areas

Spotfire custom expressions

Spotfire document properties

Spotfire property controls

Bringing it all together – interactively configuring the KPI chart

Drilling in to the KPI chart

Marking in Spotfire

Building a details visualization using marking

Deep dive – what insights can the dashboard reveal?

Publishing the dashboard to Spotfire Web

Summary

Sharing Insights and Collaborating with Others

Bookmarks

Advanced topic – key columns

Annotations

Conversations

Summary

Section 2: Spotfire In Depth

Practical Applications of Spotfire Visualizations

Bar charts

Things to watch out for with bar charts

Bar chart summary

Combination charts

Cross tables

Cross table grand totals

Grand totals – underlying values versus sum of cell values

Underlying values

Sum of cell values

Cross table summary

Scatter plots

Line ordering

Density plots

Other types of visualization with scatter plots

Scatter plot summary