This topic helps you understand Data Visualization.
You can use Oracle Data Visualization to explore analytical data visually and on an individual basis.
Oracle Data Visualization makes it easy to visualize your data so you can focus on exploring interesting data patterns. Just upload data files or connect to Oracle Applications or a database, select the elements that you’re interested in, and let Oracle Data Visualization find the best way to visualize it. Choose from a variety of visualizations to look at data in a specific way.
Oracle Data Visualization benefits include:
A personal, single-user application.
Offline availability.
Completely private analysis.
Full control of data source connections.
Direct access to on-premises data sources.
Lightweight single-file download.
No remote server infrastructure.
No administration tasks.
You can use the Data Visualization home page to create, edit, or view Data Visualization projects, dashboards, or analyses.
In Oracle BI EE the Visual Analyzer Home Page is also called the New Home Page. You can toggle from the Data Visualization home page to the Oracle BI EE home page, which is also called the Oracle Business Intelligence Home page, by clicking Open Classic Home. Use the Classic Home page to create other business intelligence objects such as alerts, prompts, and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher reports. See What is the Oracle BI EE Home Page? in User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
The home page is the location from where you begin your data visualization tasks. The following sections outline the tasks you can perform.
Creating and Using Data Sets
The Data area contains the data, connections, data flows, and sequences that you can use to create visualizations. A data source can be either a subject area or another data source. You can create data sets by uploading an Excel file or by building a connection to Oracle BI Applications or to a database. See Adding Data Sources for Analyzing and Exploring Data.
Finding Projects
The Projects area provides several categories to help you quickly locate stored visualization projects. Use My Folders or Shared Folders to browse. Or click Projects, and Favorites, to quickly locate a project that you recently viewed.
Searching for Projects
You can use keywords to search for projects. Type a search term in the Search Projects field and click the magnifying glass icon to see a list of projects that match your search criteria, and click on a row of the dropdown window in the Sort By section to select what to sort by. See Searching for Saved Projects and Visualizations.
Visualizing Data with BI Ask
You can use BI Ask to quickly combine existing data objects into a visualization. Type a search term in the What are you interested in? field to see a list of objects that match your search criteria, and click on a row with a data attribute icon (located in the Visualize data using section of the dropdown window) to start building your visualization. See Visualizing Data with BI Ask.
Creating Objects
Project as described in Typical Workflow for Visualizing Data
Data Set, and Connection as described in Typical Workflow for Adding Data Sources
Data Flow as described in Using Data Flows to Create Curated Data Sets
Getting More Information
You can learn more about the home page functions by clicking Academy to access additional information sources to help you work with Oracle BI Data Visualization.
Use the samples to discover how to create and work with visualizations, and to learn best practices.
Because these samples use business functions such as trending, binning, forecasting, and clustering, you can use them as a quick reference when you create your own visualization.
The sample data set is based on Sales Orders data and contains meaningful dimensions, distributions, examples of data wrangling, calculated columns, and more.
You can optionally download the samples during installation. If you didn’t download the samples during installation, then you can still get them by uninstalling and then reinstalling Oracle Data Visualization Desktop. Your personal data isn’t deleted if you uninstall and reinstall Oracle Data Visualization Desktop .