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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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Spotfire Developer Tools

Spotfire Developer Tools is a really useful menu option that's disabled by default in Spotfire. If you're developing JavaScript in text areas or JavaScript visualizations, it's an essential tool.

We can enable this option in the following manner:

From the Tools menu, select Options.
Check the Show development menu option:

Click OK to dismiss the dialog.

Now, we can access the developer tools by choosing Development and then Developer Tools... from the Tools menu in Spotfire. This will open the Google Chrome developer console. Spotfire uses Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) as its browser, so the tools here are exactly the same as you'd find in the Chrome web browser.

We can explore the developer tools really briefly:

Here's the initial display that's shown when we show the developer tools:

The first tab shows the...

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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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