Book description
Create innovative enterprise-class informatics solutions using TIBCO Spotfire
In Detail
The need for agile business intelligence (BI) is growing daily, and TIBCO Spotfire combines a self-service feature set with essential enterprise governance capabilities to deliver analytics solutions. Spotfire is easy and intuitive to use and can also be a rewarding development environment for all BI users.
Starting with data and visualization concepts, this book takes you through increasingly advanced topics toward the goal of becoming a professional analytics solution provider. It explains data and visualization concepts and follows through with practical examples, such as getting data into Spotfire and using its visualization features. You will learn to build sophisticated user interactivity frameworks and spatial analytics, and administer the Spotfire environment.
This book ends with a case study on self-service BI and leaves you equipped to contribute to the demand for more agile BI.
What You Will Learn
- Master core data concepts, model the source data, slice and dice dimensional data, and define metrics and key performance indicators
- Learn to deploy Spotfire's suite of visualization types effectively and intelligently
- Build user-friendly analytics frameworks with Spotfire text areas and property controls
- Understand the different ways Spotfire can be deployed, licensed, and administered
- Use Spotfire's location analytics capabilities to create interactive geographic and nongeographic spatial analyses
- Write IronPython scripts against the Spotfire API to tackle and solve challenging analysis framework requirements
- Combine all your newfound or enhanced data, visualization, and programming skills to build self-service business intelligence solutions
- Explore Spotfire's predictive analytics, mobile metrics, event analytics, and advanced data services capabilities
Table of contents
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TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer
- Table of Contents
- TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Show Me the Data
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2. Visualize This!
- Displaying information quickly in tabular form
- Enriching your visualizations with color categorization
- Visualizing categorical information using bar charts
- Dividing a visualization across a trellis grid
- Key Spotfire concept – marking
- Visualizing trends using line charts
- Visualizing proportions using pie charts
- Visualizing relationships using scatter plots
- Visualizing hierarchical relationships using treemaps
- Key Spotfire concept – filters
- Enhancing tabular presentations using graphical tables
- Summary
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3. Analyze That!
- Framing your analysis using text areas
- Key Spotfire concept – document properties
- Increasing interactivity using property controls
- Providing summary information at a glance
- Customizing the filter panel
- Getting details of marked items
- Annotating data using tags and lists
- Creating analysis snapshots using bookmarks
- Summary
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4. The Big Wide World of Spotfire
- An overview of Spotfire components and architecture
- A quick guide to Administration Manager
- Using the Library Administration interface
- A quick tour of Information Designer
- An overview of Spotfire Analyst (formerly Professional Client)
- An overview of Spotfire Consumer (formerly web player)
- An overview of Spotfire Business Author (new with Version 6.5)
- Automating tasks using Automation Services
- An overview of system monitoring tools
- Summary
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5. Source Data is Never Enough
- Creating metrics using calculated columns
- Using the Data Panel tool
- Key data concept – dimensional hierarchies
- Adding dimensionality to your data by defining hierarchies
- Categorizing continuous numerical data using binning functions
- Slicing and dicing data using hierarchy nodes
- Merging data from multiple sources
- Key data concept – narrow tables versus wide tables
- Transforming data structure through pivots and unpivots
- Using Spotfire's Information Designer
- Optimizing complex data manipulations using in-database analytics
- Summary
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6. The World is Your Visualization
- Applying custom expressions directly to visualization properties
- Key Spotfire concept – difference between calculated columns and custom expressions
- Annotating visualizations with reference lines, fitted curves, and error bars
- Defining color rules and organizing document color schemes
- Slicing and dicing visualizations using hierarchy nodes
- Mashing up data from different tables in a single visualization
- How to create dynamic pivots using cross tables
- Visualizing categorical information and trends together in combination charts
- Visualizing statistical measures using box and whisker plots
- Summarizing statistical measures using summary tables
- Visualizing complex multidimensional data using heat maps
- Profiling your data using parallel coordinate plots
- Exporting and publishing data and visualizations
- Summary
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7. What's Your Location?
- Creating background map layers
- Key Spotfire concept: map chart layers
- Key mapping concept – coordinate reference systems
- Using automatic geocoding to accurately position locations from your data on a map
- Incorporating and using a feature layer
- Adding Web Map Service data to a map chart
- Using the map chart for nongeographic spatial analysis
- Summary
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8. The Secret Life of Python
- Introduction to IronPython
- Overview of the Spotfire API
- Some useful external libraries
- Creating scripts
- Referencing and manipulating the primary elements in an analysis file
- How to manipulate visualization properties
- How to manipulate color
- How to manipulate filters
- Manipulating data already loaded into Spotfire
- How to add data to an analysis
- Summary
- 9. It's All About Self-service These Days
- 10. Beyond the Horizon
- Index
Product information
- Title: TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2015
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782176404
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