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This is similar to Spark [1], except Spark uses standard Unicode characters whereas Histogrem requires a custom font. Still, it's nice that Histogrem offers gre
by mbostock 15y ago
This is similar to Spark [1], except Spark uses standard Unicode characters whereas Histogrem requires a custom font. Still, it's nice that Histogrem offers greater precision.
[1] https://github.com/holman/spark https://github.com/holman/spark
- bazzargh 15y agoI did a similar thing (with Bill Zeller and John Udell) as a ubiquity/twitter extension a couple of years earlier[1]... but in practice the low resolution of the standard unicode caracters makes them just a novelty; the technique's been reinvented several times but hasn't found a niche. Even this font doesn't quite hack it for me - the curves are too wide to take in the time series at a glance. [1] http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageviews/ http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageview...