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Published in May 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882661

Pages 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Data Visualization

Authors (2):

John Marshall

David Parker

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

Credits

About the Author

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Preface

1. Data within Visio Essentials

2. Understanding How Data Is Stored within Visio

3. Linking Data to Shapes

4. Using the Built-In Data Graphics

5. Using the Pivot Diagram Add-On

6. Creating Custom Master Shapes

7. Creating Custom Data Graphics

8. Validating and Extracting Information

9. Automating Structured Diagrams

10. Sharing Data Diagrams

11. Choosing a Deployment Methodology

Index

Understanding the Graphic Item types

A Data Graphics is a collection of graphic items with specific configurations. The graphic items are each one of four types, Text Callout, Icon Set, Data Bar, or Color By Value. There can be multiple instances of the first three types simultaneously, but there can be only one active Color By Value.

Note

Take a look at the following article to get a stencil for each type: http://blog.bvisual.net/2015/12/24/using-visio-professional-2016-text-callouts-icon-sets-and-data-bars-to-display-data-directly/

Using Text Callouts

Visio 2016 introduced some new Text Callouts that include an icon along with the text. This has caused a new setting to be added called Show Value, which gives the option to make the text value invisible. There are a number of these new styles available, as seen in the following screenshot:

There are a number of configuration settings available for Text Callouts; they are listed in the following table:

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Authors (2)

John Marshall

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David Parker

David J Parker's background has been in data visualization ever since he struggled to produce lists of hospital equipment from Computer Aided Design models of buildings as a budding architect in the '80s. He moved into building and infrastructure asset management in the late '80s using a Unix system and gradually migrated to Windows-based systems throughout the '90s. He became a European Business partner of Visio Corporation in 1996 and presented the database-linked Visio solutions that he was providing merchant banks in London and New York with at several international conferences. David started bVisual Ltd. in 1998, which provides Visio-based solutions to various industries, and became a Silver-level Microsoft partner. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Visio) for the last 12 years and has helped Microsoft Corp, UK and Western Europe, by providing Visio solutions, training, website content, and presentations. David has had several books on Visio published and has been presenting Visio/SharePoint integration courses for many years for Microsoft Western Europe, from Oslo in the North down to Lisbon in the South. He has presented at SQL and SharePoint Saturday conferences and writes a regular blog for people interested in Microsoft Visio.

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