Table Of ContentTIBCO Spotfire for Developers
Create, manipulate, and deploy rich analytical
visualizations using the TIBCO Spotfire platform
Manuel Xavier
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
TIBCO Spotfire for Developers
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About the Author
Manuel Xavier is an experienced IT Architect (certified SOA Architect and
TOGAF 9), specialized in the creation of business-driven and vendor-neutral Service
Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions.
He has been in IT for over 10 years, having participated in many high-profile projects
across several countries, namely Portugal, Egypt, UAE, and the Netherlands. His
experience was accumulated in distinct vertical markets, from Financial Services
and Insurance to Telecommunications, Energy, and Utilities.
Besides SOA and BPM, other reference areas for Manuel are Complex Event
Processing (CEP), Case Management, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM),
and Visual Analytics.
Throughout his career, he has employed Analytics in multiple scenarios, the most
relevant being: measurement of process performance, monitoring of Service Level
Agreement expiration, and inspection and evaluation of product sales.
Regarding technologies, he has know-how in several platforms, such as Tibco,
Oracle, webMethods, and Progress.
I would like to thank Romal Karani, Govindan Kurumangattu, and
Meeta Rajani for all the help and assistance they gave me during the
writing process.
About the Reviewer
Sri Prakash is a successful Management Consultant and Project Manager
who heads E-Com Canada Inc., a company dedicated to providing Information
Technology consulting services in Canada. He has an MBA from the Schulich School
of Business in Toronto and also a Master's Degree in Information Systems.
He brings to the table leadership earned in global giants, such as General Electric,
EDS, Rogers-AT&T, and the Provincial Government of Ontario. He has personally
led multi-million dollar projects for these organizations and believes in leadership
by example.
Under his leadership, E-Com Canada has successfully grown over the years to deliver
large and medium projects for reputed companies in and around the Greater Toronto
Area. Its clients include the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA), Stelco (US Steel),
Canadian Red Cross, and the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) to name
a few.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: The Spotfire Architecture Overview 5
TIBCO Spotfire 5
Spotfire platform 5.x 7
Summary 9
Chapter 2: Setting Up a Development Environment 11
Installation prerequisites 11
Hardware 11
Software 12
Installing the Spotfire environment 13
TIBCO Spotfire Server 13
Verifying the DB installation 13
Downloading Spotfire Server 14
Preparing the server database 15
Installing Spotfire Server 17
Installing database vendor drivers 21
Configuring Spotfire Server 21
TIBCO Spotfire Professional 28
Downloading Spotfire Professional 28
Installing Spotfire Server client packages 28
Installing Spotfire Professional 30
TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Server 33
Configuring Microsoft IIS 33
Downloading Spotfire Web Player Server 35
Installing Spotfire Web Player Server 35
Final installation status 40
Configuration and administration post installation 41
TIBCO Spotfire Server 41
Configuration 41
Administration 41
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TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Server 46
Configuration 46
Diagnostics 46
Logging and monitoring 47
Summary 47
Chapter 3: Creating Visualizations 49
Data 52
Data loading 54
Loading a text file 54
Loading an Excel file 58
Loading from databases 60
Visualization types 64
Tables 64
Bar Charts 70
Line Charts 78
Pie Charts 80
Scatter Plots 81
Box Plots 84
The text area 87
Details visualizations 89
Summary 92
Chapter 4: Mastering Visualizations 93
Filtering 93
Filter types 96
Customizing the filters 98
Filtering schemes 99
Applying filters 101
Hierarchies 102
Marking and Details-on-Demand 105
Preparing and transforming the data 106
Adding a data table 107
Inserting data table columns 107
Inserting data table rows 110
Data transformation 111
Pivoting data 112
Unpivoting data 113
Calculating and replacing a column 115
Calculating a new column 116
Changing the column name 116
Changing the column data type 117
Replacing the data table 118
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Column matches 119
The automatic mode 119
The manual mode 120
Relations 121
Multiple data tables in one visualization 123
The visualization layout 126
Pages 127
Libraries 128
Web Player Server 131
Computational analytics 132
Regression modeling/the linear regression model 133
Information designer 139
Summary 144
Index 145
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