Showing/hiding items of data

Suppose you are only interested in visualizing the most significant parts of your data in a visualization? For example, you might only want to see the top 5 or bottom 5 bars on a bar chart. Spotfire allows this and more with a flexible set of rules that can be used to show and hide the data in the visualization.

Let's work through another example. Again, I'm going to use the US vehicles dataset, but you can use anything you like! You can show/hide parts of your data by performing the following steps:

1. Let's begin with a visualization that's not too helpful as it stands, with all the data in it. I've created a bar chart that shows Mpg City for each model of car:

As it stands, the visualization isn't very helpful. It shows the shape of the data but nothing else. How can we isolate the cars that have the best city mpg?

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