Spotfire Mods Developer's Hub
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 Introduction  

What are Spotfire® Mods?

Mods is a framework to extend Spotfire capabilities, in particular for creating custom visualizations that look and feel like native Spotfire charts. The ?mod? concept  (short for ?modification?) comes from the gaming community for the process of altering one or more aspects of a video game. In the Spotfire context, developers can create sophisticated visualizations that can be used like native visualizations with no code required by the user.  From the developers context, Mods is a self contained code running on a sandbox environment, which makes the Mod secure tu run in corporate environments. What can they do? Integrates with TIBCO Spotfire features such as marking, filtering, custom expressions.., work as native Spotfire components, easy to deploy and share.

Why are Spotfire® Mods developed?

• To enable customers, partners and 3rd party developers. 
• To make analytics available for fit-for-purpose
• Accelerate development and deployment and for the case of Spotfire Visualization Mods, to extend visualization options.

Spotfire Visualization Mods Examples

Here are some examples of Visualization Mods. These Mod example list were taken from the demo gallery and are available to download and use for free. Mods are constantly being developed so make sure you check these links often.

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• Ternary Plot Mod for Spotfire® is a barycentric plot on three variables which sum to a constant. It graphically depicts the ratios of the three variables as positions in an equilateral triangle. It is often used in physical chemistry, petrology, mineralogy, metallurgy, and other physical sciences to show the compositions of systems composed of three species.
• Area Chart Mod for Spotfire® helps visualize quantitative values over a period of time. This visual has custom settings besides the general settings.
• 3D Scatter Plot Mod for Spotfire®: is used to visualize 3 variables in a 3 dimensional space that can be rotated to see details. Helpful to visualize 3 dimensional well trajectories
• Animated Bubble Chart Mod for Spotfire®: inspired by famous statistician Hans Rosling while giving various TED talks.
• Spider Chart Mod for Spotfire®: helps compare multiple categories over a common variable
• Bump Chart Mod for Spotfire®: can be use to explore changes in rank over time
• Stock Chart Mod for Spotfire® for those into stocks or trading with a mini histogram at the bottom. Can use real-time streaming data. Any mod can consume real-time streaming data!
• Word Cloud Mod for Spotfire®: fully interactive blowing most common or important words
• Network Chart Mod for Spotfire®: to visualize relationships and connections between data points

Mods in Action 

Here is how they look on an actual dashboard and some of their use cases: