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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 23, 2016

Use (In-memory) Visualizations as input to Data Functions

WHAT: Enable the data currently displayed in a visualization to be sent to (any) Data Function, either automatically (when the visualization changes) or not.  
WHY: Much easier development of predictive analytic applications & easier ad hoc usage of TERR scripts by eliminating complicated mapping of inputs. 
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  • Guest
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    Jan 26, 2017

    This is particularly helpful when the data is large - we can substentially reduce the running time of TERR by sending it only aggregated data, if that is what it needs.

    Also hugely important for big data! Imagine I have an in-database pivot table that aggregates a year-long transactional data into customer profiles. I then add a number of calculated columns to it. This data is available in Spotfire memory. If I can pass it into TERR, I agilise ease of use and efficiency by a lot.

  • Guest
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    Jun 18, 2016

    Not only terr but also to another visualisation, ie table .

  • Guest
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    Apr 4, 2016

    I would like to see something like this that allows data from aggregated visualizations to be used as input to a data function.  Simply passing the raw data in a data table removes the ability to leverage the logic already embedded in the visualization which means it has to be resetup in the R script.  The ideal use case is simply being able to take a cross table viz and pass that aggregated view of data and any custom expressions to a data function directly.  A side note would be being able to define a cross table also as a data table so I can create an aggregated view of a data table that can be reused in other visualizations such as in the Line from Data Table option.