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Curious what the advantage is (in general) of sparklines over, say, a line of circles with filled in = win and empty = loss? you could use a red fill color for
by jonahx 11y ago
Curious what the advantage is (in general) of sparklines over, say, a line of circles with filled in = win and empty = loss? you could use a red fill color for streaks of 4 or more. It seems to me a solution like that would have less clutter and better communicate the data...
- goldenchrome 11y agoA single line of circles allows for less information density. If you force it to have the same information density then you lose a lot of legibility. Secondly, it's possibly harder to see where outliers are. I find this especially true when the vast majority of the dataset is 0, and you're looking for the outlying 1s. See this example I mocked up, where each line has the same number of data points: http://i.imgur.com/xRoY41c.png http://i.imgur.com/xRoY41c.png