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Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

By : John Marshall, David Parker
Book Image

Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

By: John Marshall, David Parker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Visio Professional is a data visualization application that is used by many different market sectors and many different departments to represent information visually, from network infrastructure to organization charts, from process diagrams to office layouts. Starting off with a brief introduction to Visio Professional 2016 and then moving on to data storage, linking data to shapes, and working with SQL Server to create a solid foundation. Then we’ll cover topics such as refreshing data, working with geographical data, working with various graphics, and diagrams, and more. Finally, you’ll find out how to deploy custom stencils, templates, and code.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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.

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:

Setting

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Show Value

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