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    Alternative to comparison circles algorithm in Box Plot

    The idea of the comparison circles (statistically compare data sets associated to individual boxes) is great but since it is limited to the average it kind of falls short in most scenarios. Comparing the underlying distribution is a more generic a...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Pages by for cross and data tables

    Sometimes, having one separate table for each dimension of the data can be very useful. Having the option to display cross tables, but also data tables using the trellis option "pages by" could result in a very useful view on the data. Particularl...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst / Automation Services - No column name for Table / Cross table

    Using a case to exporting data from a visualization to a .txt (tab separated) for example, there is no possibility to export the data without displaying the column names. Some applications require input file without the column title row. The same ...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Change (Empty) in axis values of cross table

    When a value for a column on the axis of a cross table is missing, "(Empty)" is displayed. This looks awful. It should be possible to display those entries as empty cells. It can be done by using something like sn([axis column], "") for strings or...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Column Sorting in Property Controls

    When creating property controls that use column selections the display order is no configurable. The columns are listed in the order they are added to the data table, not in the order they are selected and not even in alphabetical order. From a us...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Option to display guidelines that track horizontally and vertically across visualisation charts

    Could we have "on hover" guidelines that track a mouse movement over a chart and help the user to orientate his or herself against the X and Y axes' values? This is particularly for scatter charts. It would be great if we could also display the ex...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide markers on Scatter Chart

    Add the option to hide markers on scatter graph and only show the line connectors. Currently, markers can only be displayed in the background, made very small and have relatively innocuous shapes assigned to them but this creates an untidy appeara...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spatial Data with ST_GEOMTERY data type

    It will allow to load the Spatial data from Oracle with ST_GEOMETRY data type top build Map chart with shapes.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Adding more then 3 columns in y-axis/x axis should show all column name by default.

    In bar chart when more then 3 columns are selected then display name get clubbed into a single string like "4 columns" in y-axis. Customer want that by default all the column name should be visible. If space is an issue then at least a final displ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Color cell values of a column based on a comparison with cell values of other column

    Goal: End user wants to enhance the existing color condition. Consider a 'table visualization'.He wants to compare one field with the other and color the field based on a condition. Details: Consider this example. Color the cell values of 'actual ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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