Step 4: Refine the visualization.

Once you've visualized your data, you can change how it's visualized. Select one view by clicking in it, then click the 'Mapping' button in the DEVise main window:

this shows the 'Edit Mapping' dialog:

For example, we can change the color of the graph to be dependent on the account ID:

To create a more appealing visualization, we also change from a dark foreground (axes, etc.) on a light background to a light foreground on a dark background. We change the visual filter of the 'AccId vs. DATE' view, and change its symbol type from Bar to Rect.

This results in the following visualization:

By changing various attributes in the mapping, you can visualize the data in many different ways. There are also other, more advanced features in DEVise, such as links and cursors. For information on these features, see the DEVise user manual.


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