Spotfire® Tips & Tricks

Below are links to interesting and useful tricks that can be done in Spotfire. This list is getting updated and far from exhaustive but gives users a feel for many ways Spotfire can be used and extended. If you are looking for more general guidance on how to use Spotfire, please visit the Spotfire Training section of the community. If you have any questions please post a question in the Forums.

Data Access

• Access & Visualize graph data from Neo4j in Spotfire
• How to implement tab / page level security in Spotfire
• Database Writeback in Spotfire
• Spotfire Tips & Tricks: Load XML data into Spotfire
• Spotfire® Metadata Queries

Data Wrangling

• Spotfire Tips & Tricks: Data preparation using Split columns
• Spotfire Tips & Tricks: Normalize/Standardize your data with Spotfire
• Spotfire® Tips & Tricks: Reusable, Simple & Easy ISO Week Calculation with Spotfire
• Spotfire Tips & Tricks: Histograms made easy with Spotfire Data Panel

Visualizations

• Note there are a great deal of new visualizations in Spotfire available to download from the Exchange
• Visualizations and dashboards with TIBCO Spotfire - a comprehensive guide
• Spotfire® Tips & Tricks ? Shewhart Control Charts and Trend Charts
• Use emojis to illustrate data in Spotfire

Advanced Visualizations

• Spotfire Tips&Tricks: Embed Spotfire visualizations on Webpages
• Spotfire® - Tips and Tricks with Buttons
• Spotfire® Scatter Plots: Binning and Color Scheme Example
• Spotfire Tips & Tricks: Create R Graphics in Spotfire

Mapping

• Custom Spotfire Maps - SFO Airport
• Creating custom Shapefiles
• Spotfire User Group Tips & Tricks: Use TMS layers
• Create Better Maps with Tiles in Spotfire
• Spotfire® Tips & Tricks : How to add TMS Layer in Spotfire Map Chart Visualization
• Spotfire Tips & Tricks: Contour Lines with Spotfire

Data Functions 

• Debugging Tips for TERR Data Functions and Expression Functions
• Tips and Tricks for using Python in Spotfire
• Top 10 Tricks for TERR Data Functions (available in resources)
• Tips for debugging TERR Data Functions
• Register a New Data Function in Spotfire
• Create a Custom Data Function in Spotfire using IronPython
• Statistica Data Function in Spotfire

Advanced Analytics

• Decline Curve Analysis with Spotfire
• Clustering made simple with Spotfire
• Spotfire Tips & Tricks: Single Click Forecasting with Spotfire
• Use IronPython to Retrieve Holt-Winters Forecast in Spotfire®
• Spotfire® Tips & Tricks: Hierarchical Cluster Analysis in few clicks with Spotfire®

Best Practices & Top Tricks Series

• Data Literacy
• Raise the bar with effective bar charts
• Top 10 methods for Outlier Detection in TIBCO Spotfire®

Dr. Spotfire

Dr Spotfire is a regular series of tips and tricks, as well as topic sessions that are streamed live and published on YouTube. Future planned sessions are posted on the community home page and previous sessions here on YouTube!

For more resources see Spotfire Enablement Hub, and Essential Spotfire Analytics Resources.

Resources

• Book: TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer - Second Edition, by Andrew Berridge
• TERR Data Functions top tricks: top_10_tricks_for_terr_data_functions_0.pdf
• kpi_categorical_color_scheme.dxp