TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer

Using the inbuilt filters in Spotfire

Spotfire's inbuilt filters offer a very powerful and immediate way to start analyzing your data. Every time you add a data table to an analysis file, Spotfire creates a filter for each column. Just reflect on this for a minute: if we are going to try to filter or screen our data in some way, we have to do so on the basis of the values in one or more of the data table's categories. That is why a filter always corresponds to a table column and its values to whatever data currently populates that column through the rows, or records, in the table.

Let's take a look at the baseball data we loaded earlier in this chapter.

1. Open the Spotfire analysis file you saved earlier (BaseballPlayerData.dxp) or reload the data ...