Information Graphics In Javascript With Sparklines.js

[iamelgringo]

http://css.dzone.com/news/information-graphics-in-javasc

[delano]

This post just copies examples from the actual Sparklines documentation.

http://www.willarson.com/code/sparklines/sparklines.html

[lethain → delano]

Its full lineage is that it's an authorized republishing of my article at http://lethain.com/entry/2008/jun/26/sparklines-in-javascrip... although the reposter reworded the title.

That said, it does mostly just take examples from the documentation, but the documentation is mine as well. ;)

[brfox]

I like sparklines. I used the php sparklines library to put a lot of them on my site: http://www.babynameclusters.com/?search=paul&threshold=3...

[wmorein]

I'm missing something here -- the Tufte notion of sparklines refers to "data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics". To me these are much larger and are much more like traditional graphs.

[riklomas]

Just a quick warning about this, it uses canvas tags to display the sparklines so won't work in IE or any browsers unable to display the canvas tag.

[lethain → riklomas]

Actually, it does work on IE, because it uses the excanvas library from Google. Most canvas operations can be emulated this way, only failing when a high level of performance is necessary (i.e. I made a tower defense game in the canvas and it played very poorly in IE, although it did play).