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an extremely simple technique

signal — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:58:18 -0800

Ynoxas — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:15:18 -0800

Good find signal.

cortex — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:17:21 -0800

sparklines! Brilliant. I had not seen that notion before.

kalessin — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:20:00 -0800

Wow. I'd never heard of sparklines before. Brilliant. Thank you.

signal — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:42:40 -0800

Glad you like. For those who've not seen sparklines before, take a look at this, and download this.

batmonkey — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:43:51 -0800

Exceptionally valuable - you just helped me to solve a project-mgmt quandary I was starting to feel hopeless about. Thank you!

odinsdream — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:57:06 -0800

Totally sweet.

loquax — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:12:32 -0800

Brilliant, brilliant tool. I'd only seen it used before for baseball stats. Thanks!

blahblahblah — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:17:42 -0800

signal's tool is insanly helpful! Thanks.

everichon — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:28:05 -0800

Yes yes yes yes yes. So yes.

nthdegx — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 05:02:22 -0800

I love posts that give me two or three additions to my bloglines subscriptions. Top one.

kcds — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:55:50 -0800

Actually I saw this on the Internet about 40 years ago, before Excel was invented blah blah blah

paduasoy — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:55:37 -0800

Useful, thank you.

aberrant — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:52:44 -0800

Also, for added fun, try "special" characters (via charmap in windows, for example: U+2588 and U+25A0 are particularly effective).

lodurr — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:26:26 -0800

I believe Tufte credits the concept behind the sparkline to Galileo. Or something like that. BTW: Tufte this morning on WeSun.

Mental Wimp — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:00:44 -0800

I've been a biostatistician for 30 years and have admired and used Tufte's work. The man is a genius.