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Status Implemented
Product Spotfire
Categories Visualization
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 7, 2016

Superpose / combine visualisation elements

Ability to superpose graph elements, for example a scatter plot and a box plots in the same panel, a scatter plot, bars and line chart in same panel. Like layers in mapchart.

Implemented in 14.6
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Dec 5, 2025

    Spotfire 14.6 LTS enables to enrich visualizations with data-driven lines, bands/areas, boxes and markers for additional context, benchmarks, and insights in-visuals. Learn what's new in Spotfire 14.6 LTS here.

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  • Guest
    Dec 5, 2025

    In reply to the Admin's response, the implementation is not exactly what I was asking (and no one ever followed up with me to understand) sounds good, but I'd need to licen$e Data Science product to be able to use them.

  • Guest
    May 24, 2022

    Yes, if we could show all the data points in various graph types, (like scatterplot combined with bar graph or box plot) this would make SpotFire immensely more useful to a wider range of Scientists in Biology like myself. I've attached a .png to show how this is done in GraphPad Prism which is more widely used partially for this reason. But having the entire additional functionality of SpotFire to explore data would be fantastic. This it he sole reason why I rearely use SpotFire now.





  • Guest
    Dec 13, 2019

    I like the idea to stack different plots and images. Images can come from URL or file or calculated by R (for interpolation)

  • Guest
    May 14, 2019

    Agreed!  This is a valuable visualization for multiparameter comparisons...Looks like this was suggested 2 years ago. Any updates?  I've enclosed a sample plot using another software platform as an example.

     

  • Guest
    Apr 13, 2019

    Come on TIBCO  - us scientists need this to happen! 

  • Guest
    Aug 7, 2016

    yes great idea - we have done this in SAP Xcelcius where you can set the layer value (basically the z-index value of th eobject in css).  If you can programmatically change the layer value AND the chart object background transparency - you can make different charts appear in the same space by changing the layer value OR you can achieve the multi-chart effect.  Nice suggestion!