What is Spotfire DecisionSite?

Spotfire DecisionSite is a data visualization tool from Spotfire, Inc. that can be used to analyze any type of data, from drug screening data in the pharmaceutical industry to geology and geography data in the petroleum industry.

Tips & Tricks

The Spotfire web site has an excellent Developer Blog, which covers "Tips, tricks and development news for DecisionSite visioneers". They include methods for working with stored procedures, guides, and other developer-level information.

The tips below are aimed at end users, with solutions written in general terms. The concrete usage examples are pulled mostly from drug discovery datasets, but the tips should be useful for any Spotfire user.

These tips and tricks represent some of the topics covered in our hands-on training courses (call or email for more information).

Check back regularly to view new tips. Share your own tips by sending a description (with attachments, if necessary) to tips@translucida.com.

Index of Tips (most recent first)

Tip #013	Select all records that share a property with a target record.
Tip #012	Create a column to distinguish tested vs. untested.
Tip #011	Display small data values with large markers.
Tip #010	Display a column on a logarithmic scale.
Tip #009	Type specific limits for a range slider or zoom slider.
Tip #008	Convert Check Boxes to Radio Buttons or Item Sliders.
Tip #007	Determine the number of selected records in a dataset.
Tip #006	Maximize the number of visible markers in a scatter plot.
Tip #005	Save only specific data rows and columns to a text file.
Tip #004	Copy a compound list to the clipboard.
Tip #003	Invert the selected set of records.
Tip #002	Remove (deselect) an arbitrary set of records.
Tip #001	Temporarily select an arbitrary set of records.