Spotfire - The Most Efficient Way for a Data Scientist to Fire on all Cylinders
January 18, 2019
Spotfire - The Most Efficient Way for a Data Scientist to Fire on all Cylinders
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire
We use it to analyze well performance in multiple oil and gas basins. A large part of my job is figuring out how much to pay for mineral acres (since we are in the minerals space) and the work done in Spotfire has been crucial to our business. Building type curves hinges heavily on my process within Spotfire.
- The mapping feature is excellent, with the ability to layer on many shapefiles, marker layers, etc.. It's been a great way for us to save money on mapping programs.
- I love the cross table visualization for aggregating large amounts of data.
- It has more than enough canned visualizations and data analytics usage with just the right amount of openness to where the user can create anything from simple calculated columns and custom expressions all the way to writing R script for more complex projects.
- It would be great to be able to link values created through the cross table back into an original data table. Currently I export cross table values into Excel and then reimport them back into Spotfire.
- Adding columns to existing data tables could be streamlined a bit more. The workflow is a little too buried given it's simplicity.
- Add more detail on the various matching selections when bringing in new columns or rows. Even for someone who has been using Spotfire a lot, it's not that intuitive what the user is exactly doing.
Spotfire is the only program I've used in the same class of products. I do use Excel quite a bit, but Spotfire's flexibility and visualizations are not even fair to compare to Excel.
- The speed and accuracy with analyzing large amounts of data have saved so much time and money. It's incalculable.
- Our business has an immense geographical aspect to it. With Spotfire's mapping functionality, we are able to layer key sets of information on top of each other and superimpose them on a map.
- Viewing large amounts of economic sensitivity data quickly and seamlessly in Spotfire allows the user quick insight into a project's viability.
- Self-taught
Self-taught. This ended up working well for me.
I have not integrated Spotfire with any other Spotfire products.