Spaklines
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- Subject: [mg60676] Spaklines
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 02:55:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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Edward Tufte has a bulletin board that may be of interest to readers of MathGroup. See http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/ or (if you are using a Broswer that supports RSS) feed://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/asket.xml In particular, I found the entry on Spaklines most interesting: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_i d=1 Clearly Mathematica Notebooks are an excellent environment for producing sparklines, and incorporating them into text cells as inline images (or even text in a special font). In the "Production methods" section, Tufte implicitly makes a good case for using Mathematica and especially Notebooks -- though that was not his intention. I am thinking of running an item on Sparklines in The Mathematica Journal and would appreciate input from MathGroup. I am looking for nice simple code for producing sparklines from data, along with annotations, binary "whisker plots", tables of sparklines (using GridBoxes) etc. Also, now that one can Import[] directly from URLs, sparkline graphics could be updated by using a Button that will import the latest data and create the new graphic. Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: 61 8 6488 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 6488 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul