The first eight chapters of this book have shown you how powerful data visualization can be! We are all used to using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) such as Google Maps. It is much easier to give directions using an interactive map than using text instructions, and the language is universal. If you stretch your imagination just a little, you will also quickly realize that you don't have to confine your analysis to geographic locations. Any spatial context—a semiconductor wafer containing silicon chips, an MRI scan, an airport terminal—can all be mapped and combined with other data to perform spatial analytics.
In this chapter, will take a close look at the map chart visualization. You will learn how to use Spotfire's spatial analytics capabilities to overlay data on images and multi-layered maps, putting spatial and geographic...