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Spaklines

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• 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
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

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

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