List of Statistical Functions Available in Spotfire

You can include any additonal Statistical methods using Open Source R, Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R,

SAS, Matlab

Data relationships	Linear regression (numerical vs numerical),

	Spearman R (numerical vs numerical),
	Anova (numerical vs categorical),
	Kruskal-Wallis (numerical vs categorical)
	Chi-square (categorical vs categorical).

Hierarchical Clustering
	UPGMA
	WPGMA
	Single Linkage
	Complete Linkage
	Ward's Method

Hierarchical Clustering	Distance Measures
	Correlation
	Cosine Correlation
	Tanimoto Coefficient
	Euclidean Distance
	City Block Distance
	Square Euclidean Distance
	Half Square Euclidean Distance

Regression Modelling	Linear Regression
	Regression Tree Method

Classification Modelling	Logistic Regression Method
	Classification Tree Method

Forecast	Holt-Winters
	Forecast using Regression Modelling,Classification model methods above

K-means Clustering

Line similarity comparison

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Calendar Chart in Spotfire

I recently had a colleague asking me to show him the data in a calendar format.. Something like this I basically used a scatterplot for this. You can check out the original DXP here http://bit.ly/spotcalendar Some key settings to make it a calendar. Please note Order date is the date of interest here These expressions are out of the box expressions, no need to handcode them, but select them in the axis value X Axis <BinByDateTime([Order Date],"DayOfWeek",0)> Y Axis Week([Order Date]) Trellis into panels <BinByDateTime([Order Date],"Year.Quarter.Month",2)> Manual layout 4 X 3 Labels UniqueConcatenate(DayOfMonth([Order Date])) Shape Tiled Markers Marker by <UniqueConcatenate([Order Date])> Happy plotting your calendar!!!

Using Accordions in Spotfire Text Areas

Spotfire 6.0 provides great tools for quickly building your dashboard, but here we will learn to spice up things with the help of new 6.0 text area. If you are not aware the new 6.0 Text area supports HTML, Javascript and CSS. This opens up possibilities for doing a lot more with the text area. Some of the basic stuff can be seen here http://spotfire.tibco.com/qrt/UBSAN/presentation.html?pcode=100044 One of the cool things you can do is build an accordion panel in the text area for better utilization of the valuable screen real estate and helping the overall experience.(Watch the 0:15 second video below to see how accordion works - Sorry for the jitter in the video. The screen recorder does not record fast enough) Here is the html behind the text area : Please note that Spotfire controls are automatically created when you add text area controls, like filters, drop down lists etc. <DIV id="myaccordion"> <H3>Analysis Details</...

Spotfire Writing back to a database

Lot of time users need to write back to a database. Spotfire provides different ways to do this, Without going thru the code I am going to talk thru the different options available. But if you need detailed instructions, please leave some comments and will try to provide one 1) Stored Procedures. Advantages : Complex logic is easy to encapuslate in procedures. Also you are not storing username/passwords anywhere Spotfire can execute stored procedures and these procedures could be fetching data, or can be procedures that can be run Pre or Post running a query. You can then use procedures that basically update your database table or even inserts new rows in tables. When using Spotfire information model it allows you to use these procedures which you can repurpose for updating your database. Spotfire also understands inputs to a procedure and they can be mapped to your marked rows/filtered rows/ properties/constants etc from your analytics. Steps to do that would be ...

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