The Spotfire Table Plot visualization is a simple way of visualizing tabular data. You can think of a table of data in the same way as a Microsoft Excel worksheet, but that's only the beginning. People will nearly always want to see the "underlying data," that is, the details behind any visualization you create. The table plot visualization meets this need.
It's very important not to confuse table in the general data sense with the Spotfire Table Plot visualization: the underlying data table remains immutable (unchanging), except in some special cases, and complete in the background; the table visualization is a highly manipulable view of the underlying data table and should be treated as a visualization, not a data table.
Let's create a table plot as a details visualization from the scatter plot we created...
