The recent release of Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) V4 comes with many changes to Oracle Data Visualization (DV) Desktop version. The latest version of DV expands upon the current features — visual data storytelling, end user self-service, and mobile accessibility — to give you an even better user experience.
In this blog post we’ll give you an overview of several new features made to…
You can now have a truly unique DV experience by customizes your homepage. Simply click on the menu icon in the top right corner and click “customize this page.” The customize box will then appear, allowing to you select what you want to see on your homepage, including:
DV V4 now includes a “create” menu, allowing you to quickly go into a new content design process. Click on “create” in the top right-hand corner (next to the menu icon). You will be prompted to choose from the following options:
You’re also able to toggle the main menu on or off with one-click from any screen in DV. Simply click on the menu icon in the top left-hand corner of the screen next to the Oracle logo.
The properties tab automatically opens every time you click on a Data element. Users are able to set default properties for each column.
There are many changes to make the tool’s visualization features even more comprehensive. Changes include:
Data actions (navigations) can be configured on any data elements and contextual value can be passed to external URLs… or to internal canvases with various interactions and context passing options…
Once configured, actions appear in the right-click menu in visualization where the column is used.
DV now allows you to consume metrics as “categories” for any visualization. It will automatically bin metrics when they are used as categories and enables users to override the default bins.
Unrelated data sources can be used simultaneously on any single DV Project. Visualizations from unrelated data sources can be exposed on the same canvas.
The storytelling interface is more intuitive and comprehensive with various new options, including:
The Explain right click feature allows you to rapidly understand the main drivers of any attribute values in your data. In a few seconds you can see basic facts, key drivers, segments, anomalies, and outliers are all visually represented. Any of these insights can be selected and added to your project canvas for further analysis.
Oracle DV allows you to create chains of data flows, sequentially executing (these are sequences). New capabilities in data flows include:
Once a model is trained it shows in the list of ML objects with various details about its quality. Existing models can either be ran in data flows to create prediction data sets, or trained models can be invoked directly from the DV canvas interface by using the scenario feature (select “Apply Model,” then “Create Scenario”)
New connection types were added to allow DV data sources from more cloud services, including: