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TIBCO Spotfire
Course Contents
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Reporting Fundamentals & Best Practices
How does a business reporting scenario look like?
When do you use a Bar Chart?
How do you show trend of a measure over a period of time?
How do you show the correlation between 2 or more measures?
How do you identify the outliers in a data?
How do you create master-detail visualizations?
What are the prerequisites for business reporting/analytics?
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TIBCO Spotfire Architecture
TIBCO Spotfire Desktop
TIBCO Spotfire Professional
TIBCO Spotfire Server
TIBCO Spotfire Web Player
TIBCO Spotfire Cloud
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Loading data into Spotfire
Files: Excel
Files: CSV
Clipboard
Database
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Filter Panel
Types of filters
How to change filter types
Radio
Checkbox
List
Text
Item
Range
Organizing filters
Details-on-Demand
Filtering Schemes
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Page Properties
Page Title
Duplicating Page
Duplicating visualization
Page Navigation
Titled tabs
History Arrows
Step-by-step
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Managing data tables
Data table properties
Changing the default data table
Replacing data table
Reloading all data tables
Reloading only the selected data table
Embedded in Analysis
Linked to Source
Reloading / Refreshing data
Joining multiple data tables
Managing relations
Filtering in relations
Include filtered rows only
Exclude filtered rows out
Ignore filtering
Adding columns from external data
Adding rows from external data
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Column Properties
Creating Calculated Columns
Hierachies
What is Column binning?
How to do column binning in Spotfire?
Custom Sort Order
Formatting the visualization
Formatting columns at Dxp level
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Visualization: Table
Showing/hiding columns
Formatting
Showing web link in a column
Rendering an image instead of text
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Visualization: Cross Table
Comparison to Pivot table in Excel
3 Axis selectors
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Visualization: Bar Chart
Horizontal bar chart
Vertical bar chart
Side-by-side bar chart
Stacked bar chart
100% stacked bar chart
Trellis
Setting the color axis
Gradient
Fixed
Segment
Showing top N bars in different colour (Use rule)
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Visualization: Line Chart
X axis & Y axis
Showing date as hierarchy on the X axis
Forecasting: Holt-Winters
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Visualization: Pie Chart
Sector Size axis
Sorting the slices
Why should you not use Pie Chart?
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Visualization: Graphical Table
Calculated value
Sparkline
Icon
Bullet chart
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Visualization: Treemap
Setting the Size axis
Setting the Color axis
Using hierarchy in treemap
Drill through action
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Visualization: Combination Chart
Adding multiple measures on the Y Axis
Using the series axis
Changing the mark type
Configuring the mark features
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Visualization: Scatter Plot
Setting the color axis
Setting the size axis
Setting the shape axis
Straight line fit
Average line
Logarithmic curve
Exponential curve
Polynomial curve
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Visualization: Map Chart
Setting Marker by property
Setting Color by axis
Setting Size by Axis
Setting Shape by Axis
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Visualization: Box Plot
Statistics Primer
Mean, Median, mode, Standard Deviation, Quartiles
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Visualization: Summary Table
Summary table
Statistical Measures
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Visualization: Heat Map
Comparison with Cross Table
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Visualization: 3D Scatter Plot
Configuring 3 axis
Setting the color axis
Setting the size axis
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Visualization: Parallel Coordinate Plot
Product Comparison across various horizontals
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Visualization Properties
One axis with single scale
Multiple axis
Show Zoom slider
Show gridlines
Transparency
Changing bar width
Show shadows indicating the unfiltered data
Use separate colors for marked items
Reverse
Subsets - Not in current filtering
Subsets - All data
Axis selectors
Hiding axis selectors
Hiding legend
Legend
Lines & curves
Tooltip
Formatting
Sorting
Ranking
Show only Top-n/bottom-n records
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Custom Expressions
Limiting data in visualization using custom expressions
Editing axis selector using custom expression
Trim()
len()
string()
if()
case()
DATETIME([column])
DATE()
Concatenate() &
NEST()
CROSS()
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Marking
What’s marking?
Limiting data using a single marking
Limiting data using multiple markings
How to show Master-Detail visualizations using Marking
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Load time transformations
Pivot
UnPivot
Inserting calculated columns
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Text Area
HTML area
Why is it important.
Different use cases
Custom filters
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Text Area: Document Properties
Why do we need document properties?
Populating a document property using Column names
Populating a document property using unique values in a column
Populating a document property with Fixed value
Populating a document property with a numerical range
Input field
Multi-line input field
Slider
List box
Multi Select list box
Drop down list
Setting axis selector using document properties
Changing colour by axis using document properties
Limiting data using drop down list
Limiting data using list box
Limiting data using multi-select list box
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Text Area: Dynamic Items
Inserting dynamic Items
Sparkline
Calculated value
Icon
Bullet graph
Label
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Text Area: Action Controls
Inserting Action controls
Actions
Page Navigation
Reset All Filters
Reset All Visible Filters
Mark Filtered Rows
Unmark Marked Rows
Invert Marked Rows
Delete Marked Rows
Filter to Marked Rows
Filter out Marked Rows
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Text Area: Bookmarks
Spotfire bookmarks
What are the typical scenarios of using bookmarks
Using Bookmarks
Special bookmarks
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Text Area: Miscellaneous Stuff
Inserting web links
Inserting pictures
How to change page navigation mode
Titled tabs
Step-by-step
History Arrows
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Over Expressions
Node navigation
Parallel Period()
Previous()
Parent()
Next()
AllPrevious()
AllNext()
LastPeriods()
Parent
Intersect()
Simulating group by as in SQL
Showing as a % using OVER expression ALL(Axis.X)
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Database Installation
Installing SQL Server 2014 Express Edition
Installing SQL Server Management Studio
Configuring SQL Server for remote connection
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Spotfire Server
Installing Spotfire Server
Installing Spotfire Client.
Installing updates/patches
Creating users & groups
Managing Users, library
Publishing dashboards from client to Server
Web Player
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Information Designer
Configuring Data source
Adding columns
Adding hard filters
Adding soft filters
Adding joins
Creating Information Links
Editing SQL
Distinct conditioning in Information links
Personalized Information Links
Parameterized Information Links
Prompted Information Links
Loading Data-on-demand
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Iron Python Scripting in Spotfire
Adding new page using Iron Python
Inserting new visualization using Iron Python
Changing visualization properties using Iron Python
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