Summary

In this chapter, you've learned about the basic structure of data in Spotfire and how it's strongly typed. You've also learned how to combine two datasets to enrich your data with additional columns. Continuing with the theme of data, you learned about hierarchical data in Spotfire and how to work with it.

The scatter plot was shown throughout this chapter—you saw how we used it to reconstruct a famous bubble chart showing population growth and how we built it up, step by step, into a fully featured, interactive visualization. You've also learned some hints and tips for producing best-practice visualizations in Spotfire and some more about how to gain insight from those visualizations.

The next chapter covers dashboarding and how to answer the "What?" and "Why?" questions of analytics. It also covers another real-world example of how to use Spotfire to get a deep understanding of what's going on in your data!