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    Using mouse wheel to zoom one axis only

    Quite often, it would be nice in scatter plots, line charts etc to be able to zoom one axis only, independently of the other. A good way would be that if the mouse is over an axis or its labels and the wheel is used, only the respective axis is zo...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    want to rotate the label for individual points in the line chart itself vertically rather than horizontally.

    You want to rotate the label for individual points in the line chart itself vertically rather than horizontally. It's a very necessary function Our department does not have this function, so there is a lot of inconvenience Please develop it LGdisplay
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Allow adjusting tool tips in table visualizations

    If you're showing very wide tables sometimes it would be useful to allow seeing values from other cells than the one currently being mouse overed to avoid having to scroll too much and having to freeze too many columns. However, in tables the tool...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Y-axis equalization across two visuals in a single page

    Useful to compare two visuals driven from two different data-set having different scales in bar-chart / combo-chart y-axis. For e.g. Backlog in one visual versus Forecast in the other visual.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    "On the fly" calculated columns in table visualisation

    Sometimes, I'd like to do a calcluation for testing purposes, or also something simple like 100*[Column]. If I want to display the result in a table, I have to create a new calculated column for this. I'd rather have the option to create something...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    replace identical data table must preserve all properties.

    I replaced a carefully defined visualization (trellised scatterplot) that a colleague created with a new table consisting of the same table as current but with fewer rows (all columns exactly the same - I took the original table and filtered out r...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Needs Info

    Improve combined Chart options

    In a combined chart, it would be nice to have the following options : To choose the characteristics of each line: dashed line, thickness...) To have vertical lines: e.g. have a vertical division between past and future (time on the horizontal axis...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Tooltip Slider Should have a NUMBER associated with it

    When adding an image popup via tooltip, there is a slider which we can use to adjust the size of the image. But it would be very helpful to have a number associated with the slider position. For example, the slider all the way to the left (smalles...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow numbers in symbol sets for short number format

    I have no clue why this is not allowed: I'd like to use numbers in symbol sets. This would be nice e.g. for formatting numbers on log scales. You could define a symbol set *10^-3, *10^-2, *10^-1 etc. which cannot be achieved another way. But this ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Dotplots as alternative for histograms

    Histograms are very good to visualize medium to large size of dataset. However, smaller samples get usually poorly represented. If the data points are spread appart, the histogram bars do not build a shape. If the data is very clustered, the histo...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration
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