Spotfire Ideas Portal
Why is it needed?
- One of the bigger painpoints for spotfire when being compared to competitors (PowerBI etc) is not being able to execute code or query in a user friendly console window manner without the tedious Data Function hooks
How should it work?
User is able to insert text chunks -- code chunks -- output chunks in the same text area, much like Notebooks (Jupyter) in accordance to literate statistical programming principles. Or at the very least have a console window to input R code & output window to view the code.
A preliminary hack of the idea can be created by basically I resizing the property box to seem like a large query console- let's call this prop1. Data function takes the string property prop1 as input parameter & treats it as script inside the DF & on clicking a button- it executes.
After seeing DJ's presentation last week I also hacked together a very similar lightweight R interpreter for general R commands, also saving state between calls (attached screen shot).