Last week I had the pleasure of attending a seminar presented by Edward Tufte. If you’re not familiar with his work then you might well find it interesting to visit his site and poke around some. Well, if you care anything about representing data in a visual medium, that is.
Anyway, among the various topics that were part of the lecture was a little thing called sparklines. This concept really captured my imagination and, fortunately, it seems to have grabbed the attention of quite a few others, too. Thankfully, many of those folks are more technically inclined than I, and that means that though a wonderful plugin for WordPress (Simple Sparklines) I can now include sparklines in my posts here, when appropriate.
Thanks great, yongi, but what about people who aren’t using WordPress? Well, another fine individual has put together the Sparklines Web Service for easy web-based creation of sparklines. There are other options, too, like plugins for Microsoft Office. So, really, anyone who wants to use sparklines is bound to be able to find a way.
Oh, and to show off the awesome power of sparklines…
- Random up and down value
- The Houston Astros were 13-14 in August, 2005
So there. I’m a data geek. Such is life.
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