Spotfire® User Guide

Using tiled markers

A special use of marker shapes in a scatter plot is the tiled markers. Tiled markers are shaped as rectangles, displayed without gaps in a grid, and any added labels are always centered.

About this task

For example, if you change the markers in the top scatter plot to tiled markers, you get the scatter plot beneath it.
Markers to be tiled

Tiled markers

Before you begin

A scatter plot is created.

Procedure

  1. In the visualization properties for the scatter plot, locate the Shape section.
    Note: If you are using the visualization properties panel, you should add/locate Shape on the Configuration tab and not use the shape control under Appearance.
  2. Select Tiled markers.
    For examples, see Creating a density plot