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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 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 […]
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 […]
It is time to put your data storytelling skills to the test! I’m delighted to be part of the committee of the Oracle Developer Tools User Group (ODTUG) organising a Storytelling Challenge . The challenge runs from Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 12 a.m. (PST) through to Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. (PST). […]