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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

Knowing how shapes relate in structured diagrams


The Insert | Diagram Parts tab in the Visio interface provides the ability to add a Container, Callout, or Connector diagram part to a page, as shown in the following screenshot (these are the main parts of a structured diagram):

However, there are also other shapes available from various stencils that exhibit the same behavior. There is also a special type of container called List that can contain ordered items. There are several Microsoft-supplied shapes that are lists, including the UML Class | Class master shape, which is used in the following example. This List shape accepts other specific list item shapes.

This following screenshot contains all of the elements of a structured diagram, namely connections, containers, lists, and callouts:

Everything but the two incoming connections at the top left of the screenshot are selected in order to limit the number of items under consideration in the following paragraphs.

Notice that the container...