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You're reading from TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer Building enterprise-grade data analytics and visualization solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787121324

Length 578 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Primer

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Authors (2):

Michael Phillips

Andrew Berridge

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introducing Spotfire FREE CHAPTER

2. Welcome to Spotfire

3. It's All About the Data

4. Impactful Dashboards!

5. Sharing Insights and Collaborating with Others

6. Section 2: Spotfire In Depth

7. Practical Applications of Spotfire Visualizations

8. The Big Wide World of Spotfire

9. Source Data is Never Enough

10. The World is Your Visualization

11. What's Your Location?

12. Section 3: Databases, Scripting, and Scaling Spotfire

13. Information Links and Data Connectors

14. Scripting, Advanced Analytics, and Extensions

15. Scaling the Infrastructure; Keeping Data up to Date

16. Beyond the Horizon

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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The JavaScript API

The purpose of the JavaScript API is to allow Spotfire pages to be embedded in other web applications. Using this API, web applications can control Spotfire visualizations, filters, and markings. Web applications can also easily respond to events generated in Spotfire—for example, a web application could be configured to perform an action on some data that a user marks within a Spotfire visualization.

Do not confuse the JavaScript API with the use of JavaScript in text areas in Spotfire. The JavaScript API is for embedding Spotfire analytics in other web applications; JavaScript in text areas is used for augmenting the Spotfire user interface.

Many of TIBCO's customers embed Spotfire in their externally facing web pages to present analytics and analytics applications to their own customers. In fact, it's possible to remove all Spotfire branding...

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Authors (2)

Berridge

Andrew Berridge is a data scientist at TIBCO Software Ltd. He has 10 years' experience with TIBCO Spotfirefirst as an end user and latterly (for nearly 8 years) as a TIBCO employee. He is a world-renowned Spotfire expert and has assisted with selling Spotfire and implementing it for many customers. He has also developed parts of the latest versions of Spotfire, being on the team that implemented the AI-Driven Recommendations feature in Spotfire X. Prior to his role at TIBCO, Andrew was an internal consultant at one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. In his spare time, Andrew restores classic cars. He is also an orchestral horn player. He is dedicated to his family and enjoys spending time with his wife and children.

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Phillips

Michael Phillips is the original author of the first edition of TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer. He is an eClinical product innovator specializing in informatics solutions that support the drug development process generally, and clinical risk management in particular. He is a creative analyst with over 14 years' experience in IT and business intelligence and 5 years' experience in clinical informatics. He has a background in medicine and general science publishing, and a PhD in biochemistry (drug metabolism).

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