Sparklines are a wonderful data presentation tool that
Edward Tufte [if not created] has refined and shown how they can present large amounts of data in a form that is easy and fast to correctly interpret. I do not yet see any comments in Tufte's forums on what he things of the Office 2010 implementation. He has
Edward Tufte never been a big fan of Microsoft products, but perhaps this will be a positive direction.
The Excel program manager, Sam Radakovitz, has a
series of posts on how they will work in Excel 2010. All the Mac Office users will have a bit of wait to catchup.
Update: There are a couple of posts about the Microsoft Excel Sparkline implementation, however no comments as yet by Mr. Tufte.
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Still a long way to go for the Microsoft team.
Sparklines have been available for XL and in a much better way that the Office 2010 implementation.
See Bonavista's solution : http://www.bonavistasystems.com/ and the free open source Sparklines for Excel : http://sparklines-excel.blogspot.com/
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