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Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) training with Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead have today launched it's new Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Bootcamp. Run on OAC, the course lasts four days and covers everything you need to know in order to manage your Cloud BI platform and assumes no prior knowledge up-front. As the course is modular, you are able to

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Create Your Own DVD Plugin in 22 minutes

Introduction Oracle DVD played well for the task of elections data analysis. 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 animations and really useful, it is not suitable

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

In the previous post 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 show some data manipulation things end-user can do without IT

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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. Introduction Let's pretend that I'm an analyst and

ODVD

Oracle Data Visualization Desktop: Star Schemas and Multiple Fact Sources

Once added to a project, columns I specified with my custom SQL query now shows up as one source. Now that I have a custom data source with only the data I want to explore, I can easily create an analysis without having to sift through multiple data sources. ** A

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Combining Google Analytics and JSON data through Apache Drill in Oracle Data Visualization Desktop

I've been talking a lot about Oracle's Data Visualization Desktop (DVD) recently, explaining DVD 12.2.2.0 new features and the details of Data Flow component via a fantasy football use case. Yesterday a new requirement was raised within Rittman Mead: we wanted to analyse our blog stats and

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Whatever next? The battle to keep up with changes in technology

I’ve been managing Rittman Mead’s Training services in the UK & Europe for over a year now, working closely with my colleagues in the US to ensure we continue to coherently deliver expert instructor led educational courses to the very highest standards. One thing I’ve noticed is

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Connecting Oracle Data Visualization Desktop to Google Analytics and Google Drive

To use Data Visualisation Desktop (DVD) with data from Google Analytics or Google Drive, you need to set up the necessary credentials on Google so that DVD can connect to it. You can see a YouTube of this process on this blog here. Before starting, you need a piece of

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Data Visualization Desktop 12.2.2.0: Data Flow Component

My previous post contained a brief description of Data Visualization Desktop (DVD) new features in 12.2.2.0, in terms of sources, visualisations and components. In this post we're going to simulate a typical analyst use case and understand how DVD can support the process. Data Visualisation Desktop is

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Data Visualization Desktop 12.2.2.0

Yesterday Data Visualization Desktop (DVD) Version 12.2.2.0 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 the intervention of the IT department, in line with the Gartner's bi-modal

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Connecting Oracle Data Visualization Desktop to OBIEE

Recently at Rittman Mead we have been asked a lot of questions surrounding Oracle’s new Data Visualization Desktop tool and how it integrates with OBIEE. Rather than referring people to the Oracle docs on DVD, I decided to share with you my experience connecting to an OBIEE 12c instance