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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer
TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer: Building enterprise-grade data analytics and visualization solutions , Second Edition

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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

Welcome to Spotfire

Welcome to the world of TIBCO Spotfire®! This book will take you on a journey through data discovery and visualization, advanced analysis, and beyond. It will show you how to get started really easily, then how to progress on to more advanced topics.

When you start Spotfire for the first time, your first task is to load some data. This data can be loaded from a wide variety of sources, from files through to database and big data repositories. It's then really easy to visualize and explore the data, gaining fresh insight and understanding all the time.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

  • Introduction to TIBCO Spotfire
  • Getting started with TIBCO Spotfire
  • The different Spotfire clients
  • Importing and loading data into Spotfire
  • The Spotfire recommendations engine
  • Simple visualization types
  • Building useful visualizations
  • Details visualizations...

Getting started with TIBCO Spotfire

In this section, we are going to explore loading and visualizing data using the Spotfire rich desktop client and the Spotfire web authoring clients.

There are a few different Spotfire client applications. As of Version X (pronounced 10), these are as follows:

  1. Desktop clients (rich, installed):
    • Spotfire Analyst: This fully featured application connects to an on-premises Spotfire server that's installed at your organization and is sometimes called Spotfire professional.
    • Spotfire Cloud Analyst: A fully featured desktop application that connects to a cloud-based Spotfire server, you can download it from your Spotfire Cloud account if you have one.
    • Spotfire for macOS: This is a hybrid application—it's essentially a wrapper around the Spotfire web clients (detailed later), but it is installed on desktop machines.
  2. Web clients...

Getting started with loading data

The simplest way to get started with loading data into Spotfire is to import some data from a file such as an Excel spreadsheet, so that's what this tutorial will cover.

Important! Before you start, you must be in Editing mode. I will periodically remind you of this throughout this book. The analyst client defaults to Editing mode—other clients, such as the web client, may not. So, beware!

To switch to Editing mode, follow these steps:

  1. In the top right-hand corner of the application, click the dropdown.
  2. Choose Editing:
  1. If Editing mode is not available to you, it means that you do not have the correct permissions (license) for editing, or that the Spotfire client itself does not support it (for example, the Android or IOS clients).
...

Introduction to the data panel

You'll find that a lot of work is done in Spotfire via the data panel. You can show the data panel by clicking on the big icon in the middle of the Spotfire window, or by pulling it out by clicking on the data icon on the left-hand side of Spotfire:

The data panel shows all the data tables and columns that are available in the analysis. Spotfire has already classified the columns into different groups of numerical and categorical columns:

In this particular dataset, some categorical columns have been loaded as numeric columns. It's not Spotfire's fault—it's just that some of the data columns are integers in the data, and represent categories. Think of the column called survived. This is a 1 or 0, indicating whether the passenger, died or survived. Similarly, passenger class (pclass), the class of passenger should be...

Saving Spotfire files

It's a good idea to get into the habit of saving your Spotfire analysis files. There's no auto-save capability at the time of writing, so save regularly!

Saving a file in analyst clients

When saving a file in Spotire Analyst, you have a lot more options than in web-clients. Here's how to save a file in Spotfire Analyst, with a couple of tips along the way:

  1. You'll notice that when you save the file (File | Save as | File) for the first time, Spotfire will show this prompt:
  1. This is an important dialog to discuss. If you want to share your Spotfire file with another user, they will not be able to view it if they don't have access to the original data file. We can fix this now...

Producing a useful interactive dashboard

Now that we have produced some visualizations from the data, let's turn them into a useful interactive dashboard that we can use to gain more insight from the data.

Coloring

In our example, the right-hand bar chart is colored by sex. The colors assigned by Spotfire are not immediately indicative of the sex of a Titanic passenger, so let's fix that:

  1. Locate the legend for the bar chart.
  2. Click on the dot for the female data and choose a more appropriate color. I suggest a pale pink or similar:
  3. Do the same for male—click on the dot and choose a color suitable for male—I suggest a pale blue. For those viewing this in black and white, I apologize—you&apos...

Summary

In this chapter, we've dived right in to data analysis. We've seen how easy it is to load new data, to configure visualizations, and to use the various drill-down, filtering, and trellising features to gain fresh insights from any dataset. We've also experienced (and solved) some real-world data issues along the way.

I have also explained the different types of Spotfire client and used examples from web-based and desktop clients. Spotfire is hugely capable on any platform—I'm looking forward to showing you many more exciting and useful things you can do with it!

This chapter was an introduction to visual analytics in Spotfire. Let's build on that foundation in the next chapter to gain an understanding of how data underpins all analytics.

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Key benefits

  • Get to grips with a variety of TIBCO Spotfire features to create professional applications
  • Use different data and visualization techniques to build interactive analyses.
  • Simplify BI processes and understand data analysis and visualization

Description

The need for agile business intelligence (BI) is growing daily, and TIBCO Spotfire® combines self-service features with essential enterprise governance and scaling capabilities to provide best-practice analytics solutions. Spotfire is easy and intuitive to use and is a rewarding environment for all BI users and analytics developers. Starting with data and visualization concepts, this book takes you on a journey through increasingly advanced topics to help you work toward becoming a professional analytics solution provider. Examples of analyzing real-world data are used to illustrate how to work with Spotfire. Once you've covered the AI-driven recommendations engine, you'll move on to understanding Spotfire's rich suite of visualizations and when, why and how you should use each of them. In later chapters, you'll work with location analytics, advanced analytics using TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R®, how to decide whether to use in-database or in-memory analytics, and how to work with streaming (live) data in Spotfire. You'll also explore key product integrations that significantly enhance Spotfire's capabilities.This book will enable you to exploit the advantages of the Spotfire serve topology and learn how to make practical use of scheduling and routing rules. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build and use powerful analytics dashboards and applications, perform spatial analytics, and be able to administer your Spotfire environment efficiently

Who is this book for?

If you are a business intelligence or data professional, this book will give you a solid grounding in the use of TIBCO Spotfire. This book requires no prior knowledge of Spotfire or any basic data and visualization concepts.

What you will learn

  • Work with Spotfire on its web, Cloud, PC, Mac and mobile clients
  • Deploy Spotfire s suite of visualization types effectively and intelligently
  • Build user-friendly analytics frameworks and analytics applications
  • Explore Spotfire s predictive analytics capabilities
  • Use Spotfire s location analytics capabilities to create interactive spatial analyses
  • Write IronPython scripts with the Spotfire API
  • Learn the different ways Spotfire can be deployed and administered

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Table of Contents

17 Chapters
Section 1: Introducing Spotfire Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Welcome to Spotfire Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
It's All About the Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Impactful Dashboards! Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Sharing Insights and Collaborating with Others Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Spotfire In Depth Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Practical Applications of Spotfire Visualizations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Big Wide World of Spotfire Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Source Data is Never Enough Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The World is Your Visualization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What's Your Location? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Databases, Scripting, and Scaling Spotfire Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Information Links and Data Connectors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Scripting, Advanced Analytics, and Extensions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Scaling the Infrastructure; Keeping Data up to Date Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Beyond the Horizon Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Questo libro permette di prendere confidenza con lo strumento partendo dai contenuti base fino ad esplorare anche le funzionalità più avanzate, in modo chiaro e preciso.
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Well organized, well written. Although there are tons of training videos, forums, etc., I like "a book"...
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I use it for personal reference as as a primer for new users of Spotfire
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Bren Croll May 27, 2019
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This book is a great resource and has cleared up a tonne of stuff for me that isn’t available or explained very well online. Highly recommended
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Content is based on Spotfire V10. Using it with V7 is not a deal breaker. Just leaves you scrambling to find the corresponding way of doing things. My one BIG beef with the book is that the data sets are not embedded at the publishers website. Instead the author sends you searching all over the web for the data. Some of the data takes a lot of digging to track down. Other data sets require you to log into sites that you might otherwise avoid. This is where the publishing company -- Packt -- is really falling down on the job and why the book only earned 3 stars. I bought the book to learn -- not to surf the web.UPDATE: I have since learned that V1 of the book is based on Spotfire V6.5 AND there are full data downloads located at "insidespotfire", so if you're just starting out, you might want to pick up the first version of the book.
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