Data in the

Diagram!Don Murdoch, GSE

Fortune 500 Healthcare

Contact: djmurd@cox.net,

local to Va Beach

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Which tells a better story?

What interesting issue is

uncovered?

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Lets apply some BPRE, a little

6Sigma, and thought…How has

the story changed?

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Data graphic? What’s that?

Attributes assigned to a shape can be shown in a variety

of ways

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So how does this work?

Think

•What do we want to show? What helps?

Collect the Info

•Data in Excel or a data source

Draw Shapes•Shapes, not basic

art are data programmable

Connect to the data

•Wizard, INDEX, and refresh

Drag data to shapes

• INDEX!

Design data graphics

•Presentation tool(s)

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Where can I get the data?

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Select Worksheet, Columns,

and Rows

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You *must* choose, and carefully

maintain, and INDEX field.

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Data “connects” to the shape

through a data graphic definition.

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So lets build an

activity diagram!Create an example

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Frame up the Example

New software project with aggregate reporting across

three areas

Development

Hardware provisioning

Service Desk

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The Better you Structure your

Data, the Better the Outcome

What will you measure and communicate?

What changes over time?

What makes a difference?

You will need:

An “Index” to keep everything straight (artificial)

Differentiation for HW, App, ServDesk

Description

Data Driven values

1-100 for progress

Yes/No for a “critical item”

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Example Source Data

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Example Visual – Basic Nodes

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What’s in the data graphic

toolbox?

Four main display methods

Text callouts

Data Bar with a Min-Max

Icon set – 1-3, 1-4, 1-5

Exact match, less than or greater, contains, ...

Color shape by data value

Fill the shape with a specific color

Pastels suggested!

Legends

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Demonstration

First demo

Updating existing drawings

Data structure review, change, and send to Visio

Second demo

Connect data the diagram

Apply data to a shape

Create data graphics

Build on one another

Tailor

Show the shape data

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Really Useful Stuff from the

Web

http://www.visguy.com/

http://visio.mvps.org/default.html

https://libraries.ucsd.edu/_files/bml/commons/vsio_a

dv_wkbk.pdf

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Enhance-

your-data-with-data-graphics-4ba44327-59fb-4f3a-b9e5-

c3ba48c5ae0c

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