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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
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ISBN-13 9781787121324
Length 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Michael Phillips Michael Phillips
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Annotations

Annotations are a useful function that you can use to explain aspects of a Spotfire analysis. They can be placed anywhere on a page and can be styled too. Annotations are also useful for producing infographics in Spotfire, as we will see later on.

You can continue with the same analysis as before. It doesn't really matter what we do with annotations, so I just want to introduce you to the concept. Let's get started:

  1. If you are using the Analyst client, click the Visualizations menu and select New annotation...:
  1. If you are using the web clients, you will first need to switch to the Editing mode by clicking the dropdown in the top-right corner of the Spotfire application. Then the steps are the same as the ones following.
  1. Spotfire will place the annotation on the page. You can drag it wherever you want and start editing. Here, you can see I've started...
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