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Sparklines in Excel
- michael_dorfman 17y agoThat's very cool. It's nice to see there's still innovation going on in the spreadsheet arena. I used to think that Lotus 1-2-3 v1.01a was all that I'd even need (much as WordPerfect 4.2 seemed to be the natural end-point of word processing), but it's nice to be surprised from time to time with something new.
- decode 17y agoApparently Microsoft filed for a patent on this in May of 2008. It's fascinating to me that Edward Tufte isn't mentioned anywhere in the patent application. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0282325.html http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0282325.html Interestingly, that's the same month that someone else started posting mockups for the feature: http://sparklines-excel.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html http://sparklines-excel.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html I wonder where that leaves these companies: http://www.bonavistasystems.com/Products_SparkLiner_Overview.html http://www.bonavistasystems.com/Products_SparkLiner_Overview... http://www.bissantz.com/sparkmaker/index_en.asp http://www.bissantz.com/sparkmaker/index_en.asp
- nfnaaron 17y agoI was planning to use them in a web app. I wonder where that leaves ... everybody? Will Tufte have to license his own invention for a future book or app? It would be odd, considering that Microsoft names Tufte as the inventor on the posted page. "For Excel 2010 we’ve implemented sparklines, “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”, as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful Evidence. "
- imp 17y agoIt's still just an application, so there's a chance that it will be rejected or limited in scope before it's approved. You may also be able to design around their specific claims.
- parbo 17y agoHmm, those are useful. When can we expect them in OO.o?
- zzkt 17y agonow. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/eurooffice-sparkline http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/eurooffice...