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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By : Phillips
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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

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By: Phillips
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Overview of this book

If you are a business user or data professional, this book will give you a solid grounding in the use of TIBCO Spotfire. This book assumes no prior knowledge of Spotfire or even basic data and visualization concepts.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Show Me the Data
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1. Show Me the Data
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Adding data to Spotfire from files
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Key data concept – basic row/column structure of a data table
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Key data concept – data types
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Using the inbuilt filters in Spotfire
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Key data concept – data relationships
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How to link data in Spotfire
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Connecting to a database
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Key data concept – data queries
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Summary
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2. Visualize This!
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2. Visualize This!
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Displaying information quickly in tabular form
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Enriching your visualizations with color categorization
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Visualizing categorical information using bar charts
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Dividing a visualization across a trellis grid
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Key Spotfire concept – marking
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Visualizing trends using line charts
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Visualizing proportions using pie charts
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Visualizing relationships using scatter plots
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Visualizing hierarchical relationships using treemaps
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Key Spotfire concept – filters
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Enhancing tabular presentations using graphical tables
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Summary
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3. Analyze That!
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3. Analyze That!
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Framing your analysis using text areas
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Key Spotfire concept – document properties
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Increasing interactivity using property controls
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Providing summary information at a glance
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Customizing the filter panel
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Getting details of marked items
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Annotating data using tags and lists
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Creating analysis snapshots using bookmarks
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Summary
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4. The Big Wide World of Spotfire
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4. The Big Wide World of Spotfire
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An overview of Spotfire components and architecture
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A quick guide to Administration Manager
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Using the Library Administration interface
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A quick tour of Information Designer
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An overview of Spotfire Analyst (formerly Professional Client)
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An overview of Spotfire Consumer (formerly web player)
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An overview of Spotfire Business Author (new with Version 6.5)
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Automating tasks using Automation Services
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An overview of system monitoring tools
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Summary
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5. Source Data is Never Enough
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5. Source Data is Never Enough
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Creating metrics using calculated columns
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Using the Data Panel tool
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Key data concept – dimensional hierarchies
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Adding dimensionality to your data by defining hierarchies
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Categorizing continuous numerical data using binning functions
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Slicing and dicing data using hierarchy nodes
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Merging data from multiple sources
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Key data concept – narrow tables versus wide tables
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Transforming data structure through pivots and unpivots
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Using Spotfire's Information Designer
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Optimizing complex data manipulations using in-database analytics
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6. The World is Your Visualization
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6. The World is Your Visualization
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Applying custom expressions directly to visualization properties
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Key Spotfire concept – difference between calculated columns and custom expressions
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Annotating visualizations with reference lines, fitted curves, and error bars
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Defining color rules and organizing document color schemes
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Slicing and dicing visualizations using hierarchy nodes
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Mashing up data from different tables in a single visualization
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How to create dynamic pivots using cross tables
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Visualizing categorical information and trends together in combination charts
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Visualizing statistical measures using box and whisker plots
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Summarizing statistical measures using summary tables
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Visualizing complex multidimensional data using heat maps
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Profiling your data using parallel coordinate plots
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Exporting and publishing data and visualizations
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7. What's Your Location?
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7. What's Your Location?
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Creating background map layers
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Key Spotfire concept: map chart layers
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Key mapping concept – coordinate reference systems
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Using automatic geocoding to accurately position locations from your data on a map
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Incorporating and using a feature layer
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Adding Web Map Service data to a map chart
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Using the map chart for nongeographic spatial analysis
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Summary
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8. The Secret Life of Python
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8. The Secret Life of Python
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Introduction to IronPython
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Overview of the Spotfire API
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Some useful external libraries
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Creating scripts
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Referencing and manipulating the primary elements in an analysis file
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How to manipulate visualization properties
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How to manipulate color
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How to manipulate filters
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Manipulating data already loaded into Spotfire
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How to add data to an analysis
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9. It's All About Self-service These Days
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9. It's All About Self-service These Days
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Building a guided analysis
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Key data concept – metadata
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Incorporating configurable business rules into your analysis
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A metadata-driven self-service analytics case study
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10. Beyond the Horizon
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10. Beyond the Horizon
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TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR)
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JavaScript
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Mobile Metrics
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Event analytics
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Spotfire data connectors
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TIBCO Spotfire Advanced Data Services
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Index
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Creating metrics using calculated columns

Probably the most fundamental and useful data manipulation tool provided by Spotfire is the ability to create calculated columns in imported data tables. A calculated column is created by writing an expression that references other columns in the table, documents property values, and values that you supply, or hard code. The expression can be a simple piece of arithmetic, such as dividing one column by another to get a proportion, or a more complex piece of conditional logic. Once created, a calculated column can be used exactly like any other column.

Basic metric

Let's work through an example by looking at two key metrics of batting performance in baseball: the on base percentage (OBP), which is essentially how often a batter reaches base, and the walk-to-strikeout ratio (BB/K), which is a measure of a hitter's plate discipline.

The data we will use here is BaseballPlayerData.xls, which you can download from http://www.insidespotfire.com...

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