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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

Getting information from data diagrams


Visio documents are data diagrams, and Visio can be used to generate data just as easily as it can consume and represent data. Some of the built-in Visio add-ons have custom export features, such as Gantt Chart, which can export a Microsoft Project file. There is also a general tool, Shape Reports, that can be used to export specific shapes and their data. Often, though, it is necessary to write custom extracts with code.

Using Shape Reports

Visio includes a Shape Reports feature on the Review ribbon tab. This can be used to create simple reports of shapes and their data from Visio. It is not a fully featured report writer, but nonetheless it can be very useful at times. Some reports are provided out-of-the box and become available within documents, depending upon the type of shapes found within it. However, it is easy to create custom reports that can be stored as separate files (with a *.vrd extension) or within the Visio document. These definitions...