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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer. - Second Edition

By : Andrew Berridge, Michael Phillips
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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer. - Second Edition

By: Andrew Berridge, Michael Phillips

Overview of this book

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
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Introducing Spotfire
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Section 2: Spotfire In Depth
12
Section 3: Databases, Scripting, and Scaling Spotfire

Visualizing categorical information and trends together in combination charts

The combination chart visualization combines bar and line charts in one plot, allowing you to visualize categorical information and trends alongside one another. It might be viable to plot multiple lines or multiple bars, side by side, and that is indeed possible to do with a combination chart, but the contrast in visualization type can often provide a more striking comparison.

The Pareto chart, named after Vilfredo Pareto, and used extensively in Lean Six Sigma, is a classic example of a combination chart, where individual values are represented in descending order by bars, and the cumulative total is represented by a line. Let's construct a Pareto chart.

The data that's used here is ParetoData.xlsx, which you can download from https://community.tibco.com/wiki/tibco-spotfire-primer-sample...