6 Creating Data Visualizations

This section contains the following topics:

• About Visualizations

• Creating a Visualization

• Setting Data Currency and Blinding Values

About Visualizations

Visualizations are onscreen displays of data immediately upon request. In the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub (Oracle LSH) you can open supported visualization tools directly from the Visualizations subtab of the Reports tab to create data visualizations.

Before you can create a Visualization, a Definer must set up a Business Area instance containing pointers to the data you require. The Definer classifies the Business Area instance so that Oracle LSH displays it appropriately, according to your company's classification system, in the Visualizations subtab of the Reports tab. You open the visualization tool within the context of a particular Business Area and have access to the data in that Business Area from that visualization tool. See "Defining Business Areas for Visualizations" in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Application Developer's Guide for more information.

Oracle LSH security controls access to the data.

You can find documentation for Oracle Discoverer Plus and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on the Oracle Technology Network, go to the Oracle Technology Network at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html

• For information on using Oracle Discoverer Plus 10.1.2.3 to create visualizations, see the Oracle Discoverer Desktop User's Guide. To see a PDF copy of this book, enter the following URL:

  http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B25016_04/doc/dl/bi/B13917_03/B13917_03.pdf

• For information on using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.3 to create visualizations—Answers and Dashboards—see the Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards User's Guide. To see a PDF copy of this book, enter the following URL:

  http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10415_01/doc/bi.1013/b31767.pdf

For information on other visualization tools that your company has created or supports, follow your company's instructions.

Creating a Visualization

To find a Business Area instance and create a Visualization:

1. Go to the Visualizations subtab of the Reports tab.

2. From the Select Hierarchy drop-down list, select the classification hierarchy that applies to the data you need, according to your company's classification system.

   Oracle LSH populates the lower part of the screen with nodes representing the high-level values of the classification hierarchy you selected.

3. Expand the + nodes to see more specific classifications until you find the Business Area you are looking for.

   Note:

   If you cannot find the Business Area you are looking for, it is possible that the Oracle LSH Definer did not classify it. You must contact the Oracle LSH Definer responsible for creating and maintaining Business Areas, or if you have sufficient privileges, classify the Business Area yourself.

   See "Classifying Objects and Outputs" in the chapter on common development tasks in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Application Developer's Guide for instructions.

4. Click the Business Area's icon:

   
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   Oracle LSH opens the Launch Visualization screen.

5. If you have the necessary security privileges and want to view noncurrent or blinded data, click Launch Settings. See "Setting Data Currency and Blinding Values". All blind breaks are audited.

   If you want to see current, nonblinded data, click Launch Visualization. Oracle LSH launches the appropriate visualization tool and allows you access to the correct data.

6. In Discoverer, you must select a Workbook. If you choose to create a new Workbook you see the Business Area and its Tables displayed.

Note:

The first time you launch an Oracle Discoverer visualization, a java applet is downloaded to your PC.

When you launch an Oracle Discoverer visualization, you may see a Discoverer login window. You do not need to do anything. Oracle LSH takes care of the login.

When you launch an OBIEE visualization, log in with your Oracle LSH username and password in OBIEE.

Setting Data Currency and Blinding Values

This section contains the following topics:

• Setting the Blind Break Value

• Setting the Shared Snapshot Label Value

You can determine the blinding status and currency of the data you see by clicking the Launch Settings button and selecting a value for Blind Break and Shared Snapshot Label.

Setting the Blind Break Value

This setting is relevant only when one or more source Table instances either currently or formerly contained blinded data. Special privileges are required to view real data that is either currently blinded or was formerly blinded.

Note:

You must have Read Data privileges in order to see any data at all.

If you launch the Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services from outside Oracle LSH (using the Presentation Services public URL), you cannot see blinded data regardless of your privileges.

The following choices are available depending both on the state of the data and on your security privileges:

• Not Applicable. If none of the data has ever been blinded, the only option available is Not Applicable. No special privileges are required.

• Dummy. If any of the data has ever been blinded, this option appears. If you do not have the privileges, this is the only option available. If you do have the privileges required, you see Dummy plus one of the following options, depending on the state of the data and your privileges. Select Dummy to view dummy (not real) data.

• Real (Blind Break). If any of the data is currently blinded, and you have the required privileges, you can select this option to view real data in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition or Oracle Discoverer, according to your company's policies. The table(s) containing the blinded data remain blinded after you run the visualization.

• Real (Unblinded). If any of the data was formerly blinded but is currently unblinded and none of the data is currently blinded, and you have the required privileges, you can select this option to view real data, according to your company's policies.

Setting the Shared Snapshot Label Value

If all the relevant Table instances share one or more snapshot labels, those snapshot labels appear in this drop-down list and you can select one. See "Setting Source Data Currency" for more information on snapshot labels.

In addition, you normally have the option to view the current data.