What Is the Recommended Visualizations Feature?

Oracle BI EE provides recommendation functionality whenever you create a view. As you are in the process of creating a new view in the Analysis editor, this feature delivers a ranked list of view-type suggestions in a dialog, as shown in Figure 3-2.

The recommended visualizations feature works by gathering information on your inputs for a view, such as number of dimensions, number of members, and so on. It then determines the optimal layout for each possible view.

Will your new view be useful for analyzing trends? Comparing values and their parts? Discovering patterns and outliers? In the Recommended Visualization submenu, you can tell the Analysis editor what you intend to illustrate with the view you are creating, as shown in Figure 3-3.

Each possible view receives a score based on a predefined set of rules. Certain view types are excluded as possibilities based on their scores. With scores above a certain level, the recommended visualizations feature then builds an ordered list of view recommendations.

If you want to skip the step of choosing from a ranking of suggested views, you can instead select the Best Visualization option from the Create View menu, to have the best view created for you immediately, without being presented with a list of recommendations.