http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sparklines Posts tagged with 'sparklines' at MetaFilter. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:25:24 -0800 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:25:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/79559/Sparkline%2DInformation%2DGraphics Speaking of Edward Tufte (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/79557/When-ask-metafilter-just-wont-do">see below</a>), sparklines are a type of information graphics characterized by their small size and data density <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR">named by Tufte</a>. Sparklines <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/74784/Tufte-x-jQuery-awesome">were used</a> by sites reporting the 2008 election and were first introduced on <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/43019/Sparklinkes-Web-Service">MeFi in 2005</a>. There are now several ways to put sparklines on your own web site including: a simple <a href="http://www.omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/">jQuery plugin</a>, a <a href="http://sparkline.org/">downloadable PHP library</a>, a <a href="http://bitworking.org/projects/sparklines/">dynamic generator</a> using a Python CGI program, and even a <a href="http://nubyonrails.com/pages/sparklines">library for Ruby</a> on Rails. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.79559 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:25:24 -0800 data edwardtufte graphing jquery php programming python ruby sparklines netbros http://www.metafilter.com/54050/an%2Dextremely%2Dsimple%2Dtechnique <a href="http://www.juiceanalytics.com/weblog/?p=236" title="if you've ever needed to visualize data, click on this">Lightweight data exploration</a>: simple, <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1&topic=" title="tufte's invention of the concept">sparkline</a>-esque graphs in Excel.<small>via <a href="http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/08/excel_in_cell_graphing.html" title="awesome information design blog">infosthetics</a>.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.54050 Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:58:18 -0800 data form_follows_data geek_out sparklines tufte visualization signal http://www.metafilter.com/43019/Sparklinkes%2DWeb%2DService A Bright, Shiny Service: <a href="http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2005/06/22/sparklines.html">Sparklines</a> A web service implementation of <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1&topic=">Edward Tufte’s sparklines idea</a>, in <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.43019 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:48:39 -0800 design form_follows_data information python sparklines tufte web signal