Jason Baer - Rittman Mead

Using Tableau to Show Variance and Uncertainty

Recently, I watched an amazing keynote presentation from Amanda Cox [https://openvisconf.com/#acox-video-item] at OpenVis. Toward the beginning of the presentation, Amanda explained that people tend to feel and interpret things differently. She went on to say that, “There’s this gap between what you say or what you

Big Data

The Best OBIEE 12c Feature that You're Probably Not Using

With the release of OBIEE 12c we got a number of interesting new features on the front-end. We’re all talking about the cleaner look-and-feel, Visual Analyzer, and the ability to create data-mashups [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/new-in-oracle-bi-cloud-service-oracle-visual-analyzer-and-data-mashups-in-va/] , etc. While all this is incredibly useful, it’s

OBIEE How-To: A View Selector for your Dashboard

A common problem report developers face is user groups having different needs and preferences, and as a consequence these user groups want to see their data presented in different ways. Some users prefer to see a graph when others want a table is a classic example. So, how do we

Oracle BI Suite EE

Three Ways to Improve Efficiency With Better Documentation

I was at a client site recently, and as part of a front-end development effort we had added some documentation within the web catalog. They had never seen anything like it and started referring to it as “smart” documentation. Quite frankly, I was more than a bit taken aback by