http://www.edutech.ch/forum/viewtopic.php?p=118 schrieb / wrote: Concept: Sparklines: Sparklines are word-like graphics that are integrated into text in a natural way, adding the insight than in many occasions the words themselves can not convey. When we think about a graphic, like for example a bar or pie chart, we tend to consider them as auto consistent entities, separated from their environment be it textual or not. But this isn’t necessarily so or probably convenient either. Edward Tufte calls Sparkline to ‚Intense, simple, word-sized graphics‘. The reason for this name is the vivid and active role they play within text. Many names have been tried including bonsai graphics, but I prefer the term word-like graphics or just Sparklines to preserve Tufte’s word. http://www.infovis.net/E-zine/2004/num_156.htm

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