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Current library and kit shared by TIBCO is pretty confusing with all the JS and JSON stuff that needs to be edited and placed in folders for them to work.
It would be great if we can have some simple workaround for this.
| Implemented in | 11.0 |
Spotfire 11 includes a new JavaScript-based framework called Spotfire Mods that allows you to quickly build new visualization types in Spotfire by integrating D3 visualizations or other third party libraries. Learn more about Mods: https://tibcosoftware.github.io/spotfire-mods/
A dxp with a JsViz is not visible on Cloud Analyst trial version, neither on Spotfire Desktop, too restrictive !
Another advantage that D3 brings is that the visualizations are SVGs, so they scale without issue regardless of the screen resolution. Currently in Spotfire all the visuals look blurry on high density pixel displays like the Retina Display of iPhones, Macs and iPads.
Will this ever be implemented it is more than 4 years and it is still under consideration?
The JSVis extension extension is great. However, it does not work when keeping data external. This is a big issues in times of constantly growing data, as you would not want to import all the data into Spotfire.
Treemap and Bubble Plots are available natively in Spotfire. For a bubble plot, use a scatter plot and change the "Size By" visualization property to your bubble size.
However, I also agree a full range of D3 visualizations would be useful. Until then, some free options are the JSVis extension and adding R Graphics through TERR.
This would be awsome. finally opening the door to way more visualisations that are currently missing... Treemap, sunburst, chordchart, bubble chart, circle packing. We need this for variety of scientific representations.
Completely agree! Our customers would love to have these available and differentiator from our competitors (Qlik, Tableau)
yep agree - seems like the bones are already in place with the jQuery and JS support in place... just make it native (not through a PSG extension) and have a pre-set bunch like @Dave Chandler said of the top 30-40 pre-set and ready to go. Massively catapult you over the competition!
Yes this would be unbelievably useful. As Dave mentioned - even if it's a library of the main D3 charting types that can be configured the same as a normal chart object - saves all the mucking around with JSViz - we too have problems using it and again - having to hack spotfire to get it to do great things... make the D3 charting library (at least the top 20-30 chart types) native to Spotfire!
Thanks Tobias, yes we have used JSVis and although it is better and ALOT faster than building a custom vis through API... it still does not give as effective an output as it could be and we find it a bit buggy (particularly with multiple marking and filtering requirements OR big data sets), albeit i've heard the latest builds are better.
Simply - it seems like a natural progression with jQuery and JS being already incorporated and a great opportunity for Spotfire to dramatically expand its vis set beyond that of Qlik and Tableau without requiring messy config by the end-user.
If you included it as an add-on product where by the user can simply click insert ->D3 -> pick from a list of 30-40 D3 charts pre-canned in the add-on and then just configure it like a normal vis ... that would be amazing!! And i would finally get my native donut and sankey diagrams!
We have made the JavaScript Visualization Framework, available for free on the TIBCO Community. This extension to allows users to create their own visualizations using JavaScript libraries such as d3.
Additional visualizations is also available as add ons to Spotfire from Ruths.AI, Infomatix and Quintus.
Agreed. D3 visualization augmentation of Spotfire should be as seamless and free to everybody as R/TERR is for statistics.