Paul, thanks for posting the correction to my citation of Tufte’s book, and for the additional information about sparklines.
For those who are curious, here is a more accessible url for the first reference that Paul mentions, a critical review of Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence by Yuri Engelhardt.
I do like how Engelhardt defines sparklines:
“A sparkline usually consists of either a fluctuating line like in a line chart, or of a string of very tiny bars. It is usually longer than high, and is not accompanied by an x- or y-axis or other scale. A sparkline enables the visual display of a large amount of data in a tiny space. In addition, sparklines are often presented in a set, enabling comparisons between the data in different sparklines.”
I would like to suggest to clarify the citation of Tufte, 2007 in the final paragraph of part 10.2. In this a book review of Tufte’s work by Yuri Engelhardt is referenced (see http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=IDJ%2015%3A2&artid=819109913) not the original work from 2006. There is an entire chapter dedicated to sparklines, starting on page 46. The application of sparklines in practice is further discussed on this page: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1.
Best regards,
Paul.
Paul, thanks for posting the correction to my citation of Tufte’s book, and for the additional information about sparklines.
For those who are curious, here is a more accessible url for the first reference that Paul mentions, a critical review of Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence by Yuri Engelhardt.
I do like how Engelhardt defines sparklines:
“A sparkline usually consists of either a fluctuating line like in a line chart, or of a string of very tiny bars. It is usually longer than high, and is not accompanied by an x- or y-axis or other scale. A sparkline enables the visual display of a large amount of data in a tiny space. In addition, sparklines are often presented in a set, enabling comparisons between the data in different sparklines.”