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The September 2024 release of OAC introduced the new AI Assistant. The on-line help gives a great introduction to the process of the rollout of the AI Assistant and also some caveats, most importantly “Always verify the results and consult your primary data sources before making critical decisions based on results generated by the Assistant.” […]
GenAI is clearly a hugely transformative technology. In this example I show how I used a GenAI model (in this case OpenAI) to process questions from the user of the OAC workbook and return both numeric and text responses which can then be visualised. There is a really useful guide here which explains the steps […]
Spatial analytics is a powerful tool that provides insights into geographical aspects of data. This technology can be employed to optimize delivery routes, visualize and interact with the geographical distribution of customers, or even plan sales campaigns based on locality. By applying spatial analytics, businesses can go beyond traditional analytics of knowing who their suppliers […]
Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse (FAW) extracts data from Oracle Cloud Applications via integration pipelines and surfaces that data in an Autonomous Data Warehouse. The data is structured into facts and dimensions which are modelled into structures called subject areas which are easy to visualise and explore using Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). A lot of pre-built […]
There is a new REST API connection available with the September 2022 release of Oracle Analytics. This is currently in preview so does need to be enabled in system settings. Once we’ve enabled this preview feature, the REST API connector is then made available in the list of connections. Selecting it brings up the following […]
Oracle Analytics (Cloud and Desktop) version 6.2 intoduces the Canvas Annotation facility. This is a really useful feature for aiding presenting and storytelling, so let’s look at this with an example. Below I have a simple analytic which is highlighting some spikes related to Invoices on Hold. If we have taken an action to assign […]
Oracle Analytics (Cloud and Desktop) 6.1 introduced conditional formatting in the Data Visualisation interface. The ability to conditionally highlight data elements is clearly very useful when used appropriately and allows us to provide ‘RAG’ statuses to draw the consumers’ attention. To demonstrate some simple formatting, we’ll use a table of monthly ETL runtimes, split by […]
Recently I took photographs of some of my guitars as I was creating a little APEX application to log them and record information about each one. E.g. the serial number, the date of manufacture, the pickups, the string gauge, etc. I then got to thinking – maybe if I recorded when I played each one […]
With Oracle Analytics 5.6 came the facility to do the following : Upload an Image as a Map Background Draw Custom Map Layer Shapes on an Uploaded Image Associate a Data Set with Map Layer Shapes Drawn on an Uploaded Image This new set of features can be used to create a custom filter based […]
Pre-attentive attributes are types of visual stimuli that are processed subconsciously and can be used in Data Visualization to guide the consumer to exactly where we want them to focus. So, we can add (or even layer) visual cues such as movement, shape and colour to draw attention to where we as the designers believe […]