Analyzing and Visualizing Data

Gain insight into the data in your Autonomous Database with Oracle Analytics Desktop and Oracle Analytics Cloud. These tools let you explore your data through advanced analytics and interactive visualizations.

Use Oracle Analytics Desktop to Analyze and Visualize Data

Oracle Analytics Desktop makes it easy to visualize your Autonomous Database data so you can focus on exploring interesting data patterns.

Oracle Analytics Desktop provides powerful personal data exploration and visualization in a simple per-user desktop download. Oracle Analytics Desktop is the perfect tool for quick exploration of sample data from multiple sources or for rapid analysis and investigation of your own local data sets.

Just connect Oracle Analytics Desktop to your Autonomous Database, select the elements that you’re interested in, and let it find the best way to visualize it. Choose from a variety of visualizations to look at data in different ways.

Oracle Analytics Desktop also gives you a preview of the self-service visualization capabilities included in Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle's industrial-strength cloud analytics platform. Oracle Analytics Cloud extends the data exploration and visualization experience by offering secure sharing and collaboration across the enterprise, additional data sources, greater scale, and a full mobile experience including proactive self-learning analytics delivered to your device. Try Oracle Analytics Desktop for personal analytics and to sample a taste of Oracle’s broader analytics portfolio.

Oracle Analytics Desktop’s benefits include:

  • A personal, single-user desktop application.

  • Offline availability.

  • Completely private analysis.

  • Full control of data source connections.

  • Lightweight single-file download.

  • No remote server infrastructure.

  • No administration tasks.

For details on connecting a database with Oracle Analytics Desktop, see User’s Guide for Oracle Analytics Desktop.

To download Oracle Analytics Desktop, go to the Oracle Analytics Desktop Download page.

Use Oracle Analytics Cloud to Analyze and Visualize Data

You can use Oracle Analytics Cloud with Autonomous Database. Oracle Analytics Cloud provides a complete set of tools for deriving and sharing data insights.

  • Data preparation: Analysts can ingest, profile, and cleanse data using a variety of algorithms.

  • Data flow: Analysts can prepare, transform and aggregate data, and then run machine-learning models at scale.

  • Data discovery: Subject matter experts can easily collaborate with other business users, blending intelligent analysis at scale, machine learning, and statistical modeling.

  • Data visualization: Analysts can visualize any data, on any device, on premises and in the cloud.

  • Data collaboration: Large organizations and small teams can share data more simply, as you don't need to manage or consolidate multiple versions of spreadsheets.

  • Data-driven: Application developers can utilize interfaces that enable them to extend, customize, and embed rich analytic experiences in the application flow.

To connect Oracle Analytics Cloud to your Autonomous Database follow Lab 24: Oracle Analytics Cloud in Oracle Autonomous Database Dedicated Workshop to perform these high-level steps.:

  1. Download, install and configure Oracle Analytics Cloud Data Gateway on a system that can connect to your database.

  2. In Oracle Analytics Cloud, configure Remote Data Connectivity using information about your Data Gateway installation.

  3. In Oracle Analytics Cloud, create a connection to your Autonomous Database

To learn about and use Oracle Analytics Cloud, visit the Oracle Analytics Cloud home page.