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    Skewness function

    I would appreciate an easy way to calculate the Skewness of data, for example for comparing data sets.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Planning to implement

    Kurtosis function

    I would appreciate a simple way to calculate the Kurtosis for data in order to compare the distributions of different categories of data.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Planning to implement

    Apply sort order (for corresponding - not the same - values) from other column

    In short,I want to be able to sort a categorical column by the height of it's bars in a histogram. I don't just want to do it visually in the histogram, I want that sort order applied to the underlying column.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Enable Insert Binned Column for In-Database

    Binning is a very useful feature for dashboarding and also for ad hoc analysis and data discovery to add new categorization criteria. But currently Insert Binned Column dialog is not available for in-database connections. Instead users could use C...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Get the "Display Name" of expressions set from Property Control

    When using a Property Control based on a drop-down selection, where the "Set property value through" = Expressions, there is no way currently to get the "Display Name" values. These values can be re-used in Custom Expressions for example. Thank yo...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Add a way to update manually the calculated columns formula in case of embedded data table

    Whenever I update the formula for a calculated columns in an embedded table, all formulas are refreshed until I can update other columns and it can take a long time with large data table (10 mio rows) and when you have multiple columns to update e...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Sor values in a column by values in another column

    Say you have a month name or some period indicator like 'MAR-16' as a column. Then in the dataset there would be maybe another column with a time stamp. I would like to be able to sort the period indicator column by the values in the time stamp co...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Sort within a hierarchy

    When a hierarchy is used in a bar chart category axis, and then the bars are sorted by value it sorts all the bars by absolute value, without any consideration for the hierarchy. This is not ideal as the reason for setting-up the hierarchy at time...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Create Calculated Column from other table

    Currently I don't see an option in Create Calculated Columns dialog box to create calculation based on data from other tables. It would be a lot helpful to have this feature especially when you want to create calculations based on data from multip...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    Import/Export calc columns in Spotfire

    It would be great, If we have import/export option in Column properties. This option required only for calculated column. It should allow to export calc columns and expression from DXP. And also, able to import calculated column from another DXP. ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
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