The document discusses using R to analyze and visualize Oracle database metrics and statistics in real time. It provides examples of R code to connect to an Oracle database and retrieve system statistics and wait event data. The code then computes changes from the previous snapshot and graphs metrics over time, including system statistics by interval, wait times and events, and wait class distributions. It also describes splitting the screen into multiple graphs to show various views of the real-time data. The goal is to build interactive dashboards to monitor database performance using R.