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    More color scheme choices please

    Spotfire offers a paltry number of color schemes in the color dialog. 2 multi, and blue, gray and green. There are no decent accessible categorical schemes (eg red-green colorblind sensitive). No divergent color schemes. Tableau rocks all over this.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Error bands

    In other applications it is easy to create error bands (e.g. Origin), that visualize the potential area in which a measurement can really be. It helps in trending to see if newly acquired values are within an expected or validated Region of a proc...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Curve Draw where values do not change when switching between log and linear axis

    If you draw y(x) = x as custom line and have linear axis, everything is fine. However, switching an axis to log has the unexpected consequence that y(x) is NOT x anymore. I understand the logic that if you switch the y axis to log you have log10(y...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Possibility to use Properties in all Names fileds

    Properties like Document Properties can be used in for example Page Names or Cross Table Axes Names, but now in Tooltip Value Name or Calculated Value Name (in Graphical Table). Allowing using those in other places allows to build more automated r...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Resize Cross-Table row heights automatically as per data (especially when exporting to PDF)

    When exporting a report to PDF, it would be helpful to view all cross-table data. Currently if the row height is not expanded manually by the user, all cross-table data is not visible in the PDF export.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    More control over gridlines in 3D scatter plot

    My customers are asking for more control over gridlines in 3D scatter plot. They want to see more minor gridlines to form a lattice and even control where these gridlines are drawn.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    UX: Panning when zoom slider activated

    Add some mechanism for panning when a zoom slider is activated. The mouse wheel currently only adjusts zoom level. Would be nice if ctrl+scroll would pan up/down. Or right-click + drag would pan around the chart. Currently, to pan you have to tink...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    allow to do "style this header individually" on ALL header columns

    Currently one can do "style this header individually" only on the 1st to 9th header columns and the last one. See attached screenshot. As per support, before v11.7, one can only style first 2 header columns and the last one, it was increased to fi...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    2D graphs such as Quantile-Quantile Plot need to expose their underlying data

    2D graphs such as Quantile-Quantile Plot need to expose their underlying data so it can be surfaced to Spotfire for visualization. With Statistica being the Data Science engine behind Spotfire, this is a critical ask from prospective customers who...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Limit x-range for displayed lines & curves

    Please give an option to limit the range of a displayed line.Actual case: straight line fits of multiple datasets in one scatter plot, all fit curves displayed over full x-range makes visualization very confusing. If displayed straight line fit cu...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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