Your data is the most important thing when you are working with
Spotfire visual analytics. If you are familiar with the data you want to
analyze, chances increase that you can set up good visualizations and find
interesting conclusions during the analysis.
About this task
In some cases, there
are things you can do to prepare your data for analysis before you view it in
Spotfire, for example, see
Data preparation in Microsoft Excel. There are also a
number of things you can do within your Spotfire client, to get to know your
data, and fix issues before the analysis starts.