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Spotfire UI Checklist

Below are screen shots of the same analysis, One before I went thru my checklist and one after.. A basic checklist I always go thru before I call it a day on any analysis ..I am sure all of you seasoned Spotfire users do this all the time..but keeping it here to help new Spotfire users ...... I would love to hear other things you do to make your analytic application a great user experience...  Lead to action : Analytics and fancy pictures are useless if user does not know what are possible action items for him at the end. Keep that as a goal. Action can be inferred in a single chart or may need series of charts. Understand goals of every chart, every workflow. Simple things can take you a long way 1)  Legends   Legends are powerful. They bring context to the chart you are looking at. But lot of times authors leave it to default and they show information that may not help. Simple cleanup will prevent an author from overwhelming the user with unw...