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Reading those examples hurt my brain, but probably because I'm used to reading figures with labelled axes. My first gut reaction was, "great, figures with no x-
by noobermin 9y ago
Reading those examples hurt my brain, but probably because I'm used to reading figures with labelled axes. My first gut reaction was, "great, figures with no x-axes," however, he had the x-axis in the text, which made my head hurt more.
First, my eye gravitates towards the figures. This forced me to look at the sparkline to get the shape, go back to the left to see the y-axes min-limits, then scan to the right to see the other limit. Then, I had to read around the line in the text to understand the x-axis, then look back at the sparkline again to understand the trend line in context. It caused more confusion for me than enlightenment.
- deanclatworthy 9y agoI tend to like sparklines. They can be pretty useful on dashboards and for reports. But this implementation, in my opinion, is not as visually digestable as the JS implementation [1] [1] https://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/#s-about https://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/#s-about