Performance Data Visualization with R and Tableau

Karl Arao – Senior Technical Consultant, Enkitec

Tyler Muth – Chief Database Engineer, Oracle Public Sector

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Agenda

• Why Visualize?

• The Tools

– Tableau

– R

• Raw Data to Visualization

• Use Cases

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Why Visualize?

• (show AWR)

• (show vmstat)

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The Tools - Tableau

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What is R?

• R is an Open Source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics http://www.R-project.org/

• Started in 1994 as an Alternative to SAS, SPSS, etc

• Around 2 million R users worldwide

– Widely taught in Universities

– Many Corporate Analysts know and use R

• Thousands of open sources packages to enhance productivity such as:

– Bioinformatics with R

– Spatial Statistics with R

– Financial Market Analysis with R

– Linear and Non Linear Modeling

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R’s Popularity

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What is Tableau Desktop

• Very fast data visualization and analytics tool, lets you ask questions and quickly interact with your data

• The UI enables drag-drop style exploratory analysis – duplicate,undo,redo,save

• Imagine just playing with data – query, filter, sort, group, drill down, drill up, calculate, organize,

summarize

• Easily discover relationships, find patterns, locate outliers – dimensions

http://www.tableausoftware.com - tableau public (free, 1M rows!) - tableau server (organizations) - tableau online (cloud)

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