{"id":1284,"date":"2006-08-25T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2006-08-25T13:25:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T17:25:47","slug":"ask-et-sparklines-theory-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Ask E.T.: Sparklines: theory and practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/deficit.png\" alt=\"Deficit Sparkline\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\"\/> (Sparkline of US deficit over time) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&#038;topic_id=1\">Sparklines: theory and practice<\/a> is a thread in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/index\">Edward Tufte&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a?topic_id=1\">Ask E.T. forum<\/a> (which is a great place to follow discussions on design issues.) The thread starts with images of some pages from Tufte&#8217;s new book, <cite>Beautiful Evidence (2006)<\/cite> on <b>sparklines<\/b> which are defined as &#8220;intense, simple, word-sized graphics&#8221;. The sparkline at the beginning of this entry is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkline.org\/\">Sparkline PHP Graphing Library<\/a>. Another source of sparkline tools is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bissantz.de\/sparklines\/index.asp\">Bissantz sparkline tools<\/a>. Thanks to Shawn for this link.<br \/>\nSo how can sparklines be woven into text anlysis environments? Small distribution graphs could be included with lists of word or KWIC displays in tools like the <a href=\"http:\/\/taporware.mcmaster.ca\/\">TAPoRware<\/a> tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sparkline of US deficit over time) Sparklines: theory and practice is a thread in Edward Tufte&#8217;s Ask E.T. forum (which is a great place to follow discussions on design issues.) The thread starts with images of some pages from Tufte&#8217;s new book, Beautiful Evidence (2006) on sparklines which are defined as &#8220;intense, simple, word-sized graphics&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ask E.T.: Sparklines: theory and practice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-analysis","category-text-technology-and-tapor","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}