getting the most out of tibco spotfire

Getting the most out of Tibco Spotfire

Herwig Van MarckTibotec-Virco, J&J

Tibco Spotfire Benelux business user group meeting 7-may-2009

Tibotec – VircoWho we are and what we do

• Virco applies advanced technologies to improve the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases– Virco TYPE HIV-1– VircoNet– Antivirogram

• Tibotec aims to discover innovative and effective drug candidates against a range of life-threatening infectious diseases

–HIV

–HCV

–Tuberculosis

People & locations


Employees• Tibotec & Virco 550

• Drug Discovery• Drug Development• Virco• Shared Services

Facilities• Tibotec, Virco

Mechelen, Belgium• VircoLab, Inc

Raritan, NJ; Durham, NC • Tibotec, Inc. Yardley, PA• Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Cork, Ireland


Overview

• Formatting• Custom expressions

– Custom functions

• Details visualizations• Multiple data tables• Column from marked• Text area for annotations and shortcuts• Tags• Simple structure viewer

Correlation Analysis (dummy data)

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Formatting

• Show/hiding elements– Title bar, legends, zoom sliders, axis labels, axis selectors,…

• Layout– Tabs

• Filtering schemes

– Empty Text Area to improve layout• Custom Formatting

– Custom: Format string “0.00 \%” to format percentage • value between 0 and 100, also shows correctly in tooltip

• Fonts– Courier New for tables showing aligned sequences

• Tooltips



Custom Expressions

– Avoid columns that are only used in a particular visualization to clutter the data

– Different labels for different visualizationsCount() as [# viruses per bin]

– AggregationCovariance([pFC],[pFC (2)]) / (StdDev([pFC]) * StdDev([pFC (2)]))

as [Correlation]

• Recalculated after filtering

Custom functions

• .NET programming (e.g. C#)• Use cases:

– Simplify often used calculations– Calculations

• HIVMutation(“I”,”P010”) => “L10I”• Codon2AA("RGA") => “G/R”

– Aggregations• Entropy([AA]) over [Position]



Details visualisations

– Data selection depends on marked data in other visualisation• Use trellis to provide title• Color settings are not reset anymore


Using Multiple Data Tables

• Different data sources– One-to-many relations between different data tables– Visualizations generally use only 1 data table

• Same data in different pivot state

•Unpivot•New column:

first(if([Drug]="Reference”,[Value],null)) OVER [Category]

Curve from Data Table



• Link markings• Link filters

– Asymetric



• Cartesian product


Using Multiple Data Tables: Cartesian product

– Duplicate the source data by adding a data table using the “Existing data table …” option


Multiple Data Tables: Cartesian product

– Create the Cartesian product by inserting columns with the “Existing data table …” option


Using Multiple Data Tables: templates– Use “Linked …”

when saving so data from existing data tables stays linked

– “Setting for Linked Data” allows you to specify which tables to fix

– Non linked data sources can always be replaced with new data


Column From Marked

– Column used on an axis depending on what you mark in a different visualization

• Used together with details visualization to provide axis labels"pFC " & [DRUG] as [pFC DRUG]


Text Area

– Extra information on the analysis

– Shortcuts to specific selections and markings

– To improve the overall layout


Using Tags

– Editable labels• Use Tag Collection column as the “Labels by” column• Configure the key columns !


Simple Structure Viewer

– Uses the map chart• WMF image background

– Powerpoint slide saved as WMF

• Auto-zooming details visualisation– Coordinates of 2 corners in separate data table

Questions?

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