This document discusses using R and Tableau for performance data visualization. It provides an agenda that covers why data visualization is useful, an overview of the tools R and Tableau, how to transform raw data into visualizations, and use cases. R is an open source statistical computing language with thousands of packages for tasks like bioinformatics, spatial statistics, and financial analysis. Tableau is a fast data visualization tool that allows users to interact with and analyze data through drag and drop functionality.

1. 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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2. Agenda
• Why Visualize?
• The Tools
– Tableau
–R
• Raw Data to Visualization
• Use Cases
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3. Why Visualize?
• (show AWR)
• (show vmstat)
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4. The Tools - Tableau
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5. 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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6. R’s Popularity
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8. 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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