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    Tornado Chart

    A two-sided bar chart (looks like a tornado) where you have two data bars which are opposite to each other and makes it easy to compare both of them. It's a special type of bar chart in which data is sorted vertically from highest to lowest.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Bar race visualization

    A bar chart visualization that animated the bars through periods such as time. The bars resize and relocate for each period.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Circle Packing

    Visualize large amounts of hierarchically structured data. Tangent circles represent brother nodes at the same level; to visualize the hierarchy, all children of a node are packed into that node (and thus determine its size).
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Better Logic / Control over Column Name Changes

    Hello, I've recently had a support case (Case#2463638) about unwanted column name changes when using the "add rows" feature in combining data sets. In discussions around that case, we documented some inconsistencies around column name changes that...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    add option to encrypt the <value> of <connection-property> defined in a data source templates

    Please add option to encrypt the <value> of <connection-property> defined in a data source templates. For example, we want to encrypt "private_key_file_pwd" used to connect to snowflake using key pair authentication. <connection-pro...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    up/down key to change column in column selector PRIVATE

    It is possible to change column by pressing up/down key after activated column selector in spotfire 6.5, and lots of customers(Toshiba) got used to it and heavily relied on it. Unfortunately this behavior changed to opening column select window af...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Better text formatting and viewing options

    It would be useful to wrap text comments and not run off the screen in detail on demand, cross tables, and tables. Also, we had a case recently (2467075) where exporting from details on demand and copying and pasting to Excel was truncating the te...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Data wrangling function to merge multiple dataframes to fill and replace

    Often, multiple sources of data have different level of 'complete cases' - dataset #1 may have 60% filled entries, while dataset #2 may have the remaining 20% that are missing from #1 (both datasets may have all or some columns matching). Currentl...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Allow user to edit DataRelationShip table after insert a transformation

    Once I insert “Transformation” in the DataRelationShip table, the edit table icon will disappear, which mean the user can’t change the X/Y selection any more.We wants to keep the selection icon after insert a transformation for DataRelationShip ta...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Colour of line vary with value

    One of our users made the following suggestion: It would be fantastic to be able to colour lines based on value - i.e. the line actually changes colour as the y value varies, or colouring is more versatile on combination charts - for example sep...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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