Talk:Sparkline

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[edit] Inline?

I don't understand why the image of the DJA isn't inlined. htom 20:57, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Is this wiki page itself a good example of sparklines? I'd argue that this example is _anti_-sparkline, in that it takes a set of graphs and isolates them in their own box, in the traditional manner.

A much better example and explanation is on one of the referenced web pages, describing a Python library for them. Andy Dingley 16:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Good point. Although they are also useful in a table, which is what is done here. —Ben FrantzDale 21:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Tufte's article shows clearly that the context of the sparkline should be visible - he gives examples of "normal range" (a grey box showing safe levels superimposed on the sparkline with the current value indicated in text, as well as examples with indexes showing minima and maxima values. I think the examples in the page are unsatisfactory as they're very poor on (value) context. 194.151.95.22 11:17, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

On top of that, one of them’s missing – the Dow Jones and NASDAQ ones are identical (not merely similar), suggesting a mistake by the uploader. -Ahruman (talk) 15:05, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I've inlined the Dow sparkline, but have no idea how to fix the other problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by OtterSmith (talk • contribs) 21:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC)