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Sparklines: theory and practice

• nirmal 18y ago
  John Resig had a JS library for making these dynamically using the Canvas element. The project page is: http://ejohn.org/projects/jspark/ http://ejohn.org/projects/jspark/ It doesn't seem to work in Safari 2 though. Looks fine in FF2.
  • nirmal 18y ago
    http://www.willarson.com/code/sparklines/sparklines.html http://www.willarson.com/code/sparklines/sparklines.html This library seems more feature-full. It works in Safari.
    • willarson 18y 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.
      • nirmal 18y ago
        Cool, one of these days I will have a computer with IE :).
• nertzy 18y ago
  Geoffrey Grosenbach has a Ruby library for generating Sparklines: http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/07/28/sparklines-graph-library-for-ruby 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.html http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparklinesForMinimalists....
• hsmyers 18y 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.
• nirmal 18y 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.