Overview

• This course covers the analytics basics and explains how to build useful and interactive visualizations using TIBCO Spotfire® 11 along with the hands-on labs.

• It examines the key components of good analytics solutions and provides general guidelines to use specific visualization types.

• It also covers data access, import and storage options, and explains how to build simple visualizations using well known chart types.

• It provides concepts to configure the basic visualization properties and design interactive features.

Learning Objectives

• Introduce TIBCO Spotfire

• Explore Spotfire Client User Interface

• Explain Basic Visualizations

• Explore Basic Interactive Features in Spotfire

• Explore Save and Export Options for Data and Visualizations

Course Audience: Analyst

Course Prerequisite: None

Detailed Agenda

• Introduce TIBCO Spotfire

• Explain TIBCO Spotfire benefits

• Explore TIBCO Spotfire clients

• Explain TIBCO Spotfire architecture

• List TIBCO Spotfire editions offered

• Compare online and offline modes

• Explore new enhanced Spotfire user interface

• Explore files and data flyout, data in analysis flyout

• Explore visualization types and data canvas flyout

• Explore filters panel and its properties

• Explain the different data formats

• Explore local data import in Spotfire

• Explore the import settings dialog

• Explore data import from external data systems

• Explore subset data import

• Explain the concept of natural language query

• Explore table visualization and its formatting

• Explain categorical and continuous data

• Explain the different color modes

• Build different types of bar charts

• Explore column and visualization properties

• Explain the use of line charts

• Explore line chart properties and enhancements

• Explain the concept of trellising

• Explore options to use dates in visualizations

• Explain scatter plots and density plots

• Introduce different interactive features

• Explain markings and its application

• Explore various data marking options

• Explain Filtering and its types

• Explain data and visualization export options