Spotfire Ideas Portal
I always find myself struggling to find a good place to create calendar visualizations to add to presentations or project documents. In discussions with coworkers we came to the conclusion that this should absolutely be a chart-type in Spotfire.
Imagine if you had a table of data that included two columns, a date and an event. And by simply selecting the "Calendar" visualization type, you can now see these events on a monthly calendar. Imagine the uses for this for project dates / timelines, product launch calendars, shipment & receipt dates, etc.
Now take it a step further and start to apply information to those calendars. Like sales information by day. Stock performance by day. Order fill rates by day.
The idea would be a calendar format that already knows the months, weeks and Days. It would come equipped with the 'page' buttons to move between months.
The below blog shows some potentially really useful examples of this idea (and of course some terrible examples as well).
I think Tibco needs to make this happen.
https://datavizcatalogue.com/blog/chart-combinations-visualizing-data-in-calendars/
There is also this clever hack: https://support.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-make-Calendar-like-chart-using-a-scatter-plot
It works pretty good and the link even has an example .dxp, although I agree it would be nice to have a mod/viz that requires less manual fiddling to configure.
the good thing with cross table is that we can add several columns, here i specify the month on top of the week number. it's almost like a calendar :)
great idea, the link towards dataviz catalogue is great and very insightful!
just in case there are already some possibilities via a cross-table, using Day of week and week number for instance, and color with one parameter