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    Option to release temporary data from memory when using "Add Rows" and "Add Columns" operation.

    At this time, when using "Add Rows" and "Add Columns" operation, memory consumption becomes much larger than total of each data source. For example, four data sources with 1000 rows each are merged in one datatable with "Add Rows" operations, bel...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    build table's alias with alphabet for information link SQL to avoid errors

    We are seeing SQL error with some databases when loading data via information link. The SQL is generated by Information Designer with table's alias being built from the first character of the table name. In case of MongoDB (via MySQL data source t...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Retrieve spatial objects from database only for the current extent

    When we have lot of spatial objects in the database (about 2millions) it should be interesting to load only data from the current extent.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    sort Y axis (numeric) descendantly on cross tab

    Customer wants to sort Y axis (numeric) descendantly on cross tab. Thanks.
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow grid lines in chart foreground

    See attached. With grid lines in background of this bar chart, it's not very visible or useful. Transparency helps, but still not ideal. Allowing grid lines to be in foreground would help. Also should allow changing color of grid lines so chart ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add (Tools menu) Models to Recommendations Engine

    It would be valuable to have an option to initiate the Tools menu models (Data Relationships, Clustering, Regression, Classification) with the Recommendations engine. Data exploration can become tedious and haphazard when dealing with more than a ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom orientation of labels

    In the oil and gas space, horizontal wells are typically oriented north-south, lateral lengths are typically 2 miles long, and interwell spacing is typically 1/4 mile. Wells are mostly drilled from a common surface pad location (making placing lab...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Increase text length limit for importing text fields to Statistica workspace.

    Currently the text length limit for importing text is 30720 for Statistica v13.4. We have a field that has a max length of 100k and would like to import this for text mining. Ideally we would want full support of VARCHAR(MAX) fields. For reference...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Move Highlighted Line to Foreground in Scatter Plots

    In line plots, if a certain set of data points is highlighted by selecting, for example, the corresponding entry in the legend, the line is moved to the foreground such that it is not obstructed by other lines. In a scatter plot with line connecti...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Search: Add thesaurus for search engine

    Some similar terms should be indexed into the search engine. Even terms that are only similar in context. Does not need to be NLP-driven semantic mapping, just a simple rules-based thesaurus. For instance, in the attached example, I have wage da...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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