Sparklines: theory and practice

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by bentoner • 18 years ago

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nirmal4• 18 years ago

John Resig had a JS library for making these dynamically using the Canvas element. The project page is: http://ejohn.org/projects/jspark/

It doesn't seem to work in Safari 2 though. Looks fine in FF2.

nirmal4• 18 years ago

http://www.willarson.com/code/sparklines/sparklines.html

This library seems more feature-full. It works in Safari.

willarson• 18 years ago

Actually, it works in Opera, Safari, Firefox and in Internet Explorer (using the excanvas). Its still evolving a bit, and I hope to add more statistical analysis to it, but its a bit fun.

nertzy• 18 years ago

Geoffrey Grosenbach has a Ruby library for generating Sparklines: http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/07/28/sparklines-graph-...

And, as usual, Why the Lucky Stiff has a wacky minimalist one: http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparklinesForMinimalists....

hsmyers• 18 years ago

Sparklines are good. The Book the text came from is better. The three previous books and "Beautiful Evidence" stand next to Knuth in my estimation. For Perl fans out there check out CD-Graph-Sparklines on CPAN.

nirmal4• 18 years ago

I was just thinking how nice it would be to see these sorts of graphs in academic papers. Most papers already have the habit of including stdev in () next to means but it would be nice to see these sorts of graphs for things like learning curves.

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