How to create swimmer plot in Tibco spotfire? Any recommendation to proceed further?

[Raman Sharma 2]

How to create swimmer plot in Tibco spotfire?

 

Any recommendation to proceed further?

[Fredrik Rosell]

Hello,

There is no swimmer plot available out-of-the-box in Spotfire.

You could of course explore if you can create something that can visualize that type of data, but in a different way, using the existing plot types, in the way you need, but if you specifically want a swimmer plot, maybe consider one of these options:

  

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Create a Spotfire Mod for it:

https://community.spotfire.com/s/article/TIBCO-Spotfire-Mods-Overview

That could especially be a good option if you have found some third-party JavaScript visualization library, like e.g. D3.js or Chart.js, that already has a swimmer plot.

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If you don't need a fully interactable Spotfire plot, here's an example of how one can create a plot using TERR, by calling open-source R functions via the RinR package, and display that in Spotfire. 

https://support.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-create-a-graph-using-TERR-by-calling-open-source-R-functions-via-the-RinR-package

I e.g. found the following swimmer plot for R:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/swimplot/vignettes/Introduction.to.swimplot.html#:~:text=A%20swimmer%20plot%20is%20a,utilized%20to%20display%20additional%20information.

Best Regards

Fredrik