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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By : Michael Phillips
Book Image

TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By: Michael Phillips

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter has taught you how to use a good cross-section of Spotfire visualizations and highlighted where their analytical strengths lie. You should now be able to build and configure the various visualization types but also, if you haven't already thought about such things, gained some insight into the science and art of data visualization.

You saw how the Table visualization is an easy and traditional way to display detailed information in tabular form; how the Bar Chart visualization is excellent for visualizing categorical information, such as distributions; how the Line Chart visualization is ideal for analyzing trends; usually, in time, but not necessarily; and how the Pie Chart visualization is good for visualizing simple proportions, but how it does have its limitations.

The versatility and power of the Scatter Plot visualization for analyzing relationships and providing multiple levels of presentation through its color, shape, size, and trellis properties should be clear...