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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By : Berridge, Phillips
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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

3.6 (8)
By: Berridge, 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)
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Section 1: Introducing Spotfire
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Section 2: Spotfire In Depth
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Section 3: Databases, Scripting, and Scaling Spotfire

Summary

This chapter has given you some practical suggestions about when you should use the different types of visualizations provided in Spotfire. It is based on my experience of working with various customers and use cases, in different industries. You are free to take your own route, and I'm sure you'll end up with your own favorite visualizations!

I have also provided some hints and tips for configuring the visualizations, some common pitfalls and mistakes to avoid, and some thoughts about good design.

Some important takeaways from this chapter are as follows:

  • Bar charts, cross tables, and scatter plots are probably the most versatile visualizations. You can do so much with them!
  • Avoid pie charts (most of the time).
  • Think carefully about which visualization type you should use in a given circumstance.
  • Don't sum averages.
  • Be careful with cross table grand totals...

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