Welcome to Spotfire

Welcome to the world of TIBCO Spotfire?! This book will take you on a journey through data discovery and visualization, advanced analysis, and beyond. It will show you how to get started really easily, then how to progress on to more advanced topics.

When you start Spotfire for the first time, your first task is to load some data. This data can be loaded from a wide variety of sources, from files through to database and big data repositories. It's then really easy to visualize and explore the data, gaining fresh insight and understanding all the time.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

• Introduction to TIBCO Spotfire
• Getting started with TIBCO Spotfire
• The different Spotfire clients
• Importing and loading data into Spotfire
• The Spotfire recommendations engine
• Simple visualization types
• Building useful visualizations
• Details visualizations
• Introduction to marking and filtering
• Gaining insights from your data