Visualizing Data and Metadata

This section presents tabular and graphic techniques for visualizing data.

As you plan your information model, you first identify data as objects, property values, and relationships. (See Kinds of Data: Classes, Properties, and Relationship Types.) Next, write down your data as objects, property values, and relationships, identifying the following:

1. What the objects are.
   
   
2. The relationships that exist between objects.
   
   
3. For each object or relationship, what its property values are.

You now have enough information to use tabular and graphic techniques to visualize your data. These powerful techniques can help you understand the types of data you need. The following topics describe how to visualize data and metadata:

• Ways to List Data
  
  
• Ways to List Data, Applied to Types