Create innovative enterprise-class informatics solutions using TIBCO
Spotfire
Key Features
- Learn how easy it can be to use text areas, property controls, and
python scripts to create polished, professional Spotfire applications
- Become more informed about self-service analytics and contribute to
community dialogue on best-practice approaches to the empowerment of
self-service business intelligence
- Follow this step-by-step guide packed with real-world examples on how
to use data and visualization techniques to build insightful and
interactive analyses with Spotfire
Book Description
The need for agile business intelligence (BI) is growing daily, and
TIBCO Spotfire combines a self-service feature set with essential
enterprise governance capabilities to deliver analytics solutions.
Spotfire is easy and intuitive to use and can also be a rewarding
development environment for all BI users.
Starting with data and visualization concepts, this book takes you
through increasingly advanced topics toward the goal of becoming a
professional analytics solution provider. It explains data and
visualization concepts and follows through with practical examples, such
as getting data into Spotfire and using its visualization features. You
will learn to build sophisticated user interactivity frameworks and
spatial analytics, and administer the Spotfire environment.
This book ends with a case study on self-service BI and leaves you
equipped to contribute to the demand for more agile BI.
What you will learn
- Master core data concepts, model the source data, slice and dice
dimensional data, and define metrics and key performance indicators
- Learn to deploy Spotfire's suite of visualization types effectively
and intelligently
- Build user-friendly analytics frameworks with Spotfire text areas and
property controls
- Understand the different ways Spotfire can be deployed, licensed, and
administered
- Use Spotfire's location analytics capabilities to create interactive
geographic and nongeographic spatial analyses
- Write IronPython scripts against the Spotfire API to tackle and solve
challenging analysis framework requirements
- Combine all your newfound or enhanced data, visualization, and
programming skills to build self-service business intelligence
solutions
- Explore Spotfire's predictive analytics, mobile metrics, event
analytics, and advanced data services capabilities
