Rittman Mead Blog - Data Visualization

The Oracle Analytics Data Visualization Challenge and the Chocolate Story

As part of the Oracle Analytics Data Visualization Challenge, Rittman Mead had the opportunity to craft a creative data story using the built-in features of Oracle Analytics DV. About the Challenge The Oracle Analytics team launched this challenge between February 3 and March 14, 2025; providing access to a dedicated

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Data Visualisation Best Practices in Oracle Analytics

Best practices are like a good guidebook that helps anyone work with a tool with ease. Industry standards in general provide what we should do and how we should do it and these are generally advice that comes from experts that have been time tested over a period of time.

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Two Tales of Data Storytelling

We’ve recently been focusing on how data is presented to various audiences using different methods. The audiences can vary greatly by subject knowledge and can be thought of in terms of: * Subject matter experts: These individuals have a deep understanding of the topic and want to explore the data

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Leveraging Custom Python Scripts in Oracle Analytics Server

This post illustrates how to leverage custom Python scripts in Oracle Analytics Server to give you greater control and flexibility over specific data processing needs.

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Analyzing Brand Reputation with Oracle Analytics

This post illustrates how to use Oracle Analytics to perform brand reputation analysis without machine learning or marketing experience.

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Oracle Analytics Server 2022 (6.4): The Best 15 New Features, Ranked

OAS 6.4 is finally live and provides a big set of enhancements that had been already available to OAC users. New features mostly affect the Data Visualization tool and involve the full process flow, from the data preparation to the data presentation, including visualizations, machine learning and administration improvements.

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Timestamp Functions and Presentation Variables in Oracle Cloud Analytics

One of the most popular Rittman Mead blog posts over the last 10 years is Timestamps and Presentation Variables [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/timestamps-and-presentation-variables/]. As we are seeing more and more migrations to OAC, we decided to review and revise this post for the latest version of

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Rittman Mead at Kscope 2018

Kscope 2018 is just a week away! Magnificent location (Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort [https://www.swandolphin.com/groupres/KSCNR/]) for one of the best tech conferences of the year! The agenda is impressive (look here [https://kscope18.odtug.com/page/presentations]) spanning over ten different tracks from

DVD

Create Your Own DVD Plugin in 22 minutes

Introduction Oracle DVD played well for the task of elections data analysis [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/02/analysing-elections-data-with-oracle-data-visualisation-desktop] . But I faced some limitations and had to curtail my use of one of my favourite charts - Scatter chart. While DVD’s implementation of it looks good, has smooth

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Data Preparation for "Analysing Elections Data with Oracle Data Visualisation Desktop"

In the previous post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/02/analysing-elections-data-with-oracle-data-visualisation-desktop/] I wrote about some interesting insights we can get from the elections data. And this post concentrates on the data preparation for it. As the first one, it doesn't work as a guide and aimed to

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Analysing Elections Data with Oracle Data Visualisation Desktop

Disclaimer #1 This post is not about politics. Its dataset is about politics, but that's a coincidence. It could be about immunisation or transport or anything else. If you are strictly against any politics, here is a link to watch cute kittens [https://www.google.ru/search?q=

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Data Visualization Desktop 12.2.2.0

Yesterday Data Visualization Desktop (DVD) Version 12.2.2.0 [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/oracle-data-visualization/downloads/oracle-data-visualization-desktop-2938957.html] was released. DVD, since its first release, aims to extend Oracle's Data Visualization portfolio by adding a desktop tool allowing data visualization capabilities directly to end users without

Technical

OBIEE 12.2.1.1.0 - New Feature Guide

Oracle has recently released version 12.2.1.1.0 [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/business-intelligence-3046226.html] for OBIEE 12c, which has a variety of exciting new features for Data Visualization, BI Publisher, Dashboards in OBIEE, and ODBC connections. It can be performed as an in-place upgrade

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Oracle's New Data Visualization Desktop

A recent addition to the Oracle lineup of visualization tools is the Oracle Data Visualization Desktop. Described by Oracle as a “single user desktop application that provides Oracle Data Visualization functionality to business users,” DVD is an easy-to-install data visualization tool for Windows 7, 8 or 10 that packs some