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Beautiful and simple sparklines with source code
- ursablanco 16y agoI'm sure there's great uses for these things, but currently they're a solution in search of a problem. This is wishful thinking: "The last data point, annotated with text and a dot tells the reader the value, allowing them to intuitively set the scale for the rest of the graph." If the HTTP return codes is the killer application for sparklines, I couldn't say. I'd have to wonder, though, if this were a mission critical issue: Would you do the same thing?
- jarin 16y agoKind of useless without the actual source code, isn't it?
- aw3c2 16y agoTerrible examples. He says "Sparklines (...) are small infographics designed to convey large amounts of information "inline" with the text" and then shows a big graph. He then continues "From the general shape the graph, the reader is able to get a sense for the general trend (upwards)" which is absolutely not true. The graph is too wide to see the upwards trend easily and since there are no horizontal guide lines I say most people don't notice it. There is some news site that embeds tiny sparklines of company's stock history actually inline with the text. That's good use of them.
- wccrawford 16y agoHaving only 1 point annotated means that you can't tell the scale of the graph. Are those little tiny changes over time, or extremely massive ones? I can't imagine anything I would find this useful for, and if I tried to use it for something for management, they'd ask the scale as their first question.
- vincentchu 16y agoHey guys, thanks for the feedback. I've added in code that will also annotate the first point. See: http://img.skitch.com/20100917-c7yqhxg74hq6tr97sfubshc441.png http://img.skitch.com/20100917-c7yqhxg74hq6tr97sfubshc441.pn...