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Create a Custom Filter Layer in Oracle Analytics

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 […]

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Thoughts on Pre-attentive attributes with Oracle Analytics

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 […]

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Oracle Analytics Cloud Butterfly Charts

Oracle Analytics Cloud has a range of new capabilities including a new chart type, the Butterfly Chart. This can be thought of as a variant of the bar chart and is useful when wanting to directly compare two measures side by side. As a simple example, I have created some sales v profit figures across […]