Tag: Sparklines

All beginnings are difficult…and sparklines are no exception. Where they end – namely, the current period – is clear. But where should they start? How do they react if you change where they end [...]

Is the end of dashboards near? Because visualizations with unrelated content are too complex for our "narrow" human minds? Because we literally cannot see through things because the eye sequences get [...]

The colored cars again. Did you notice? The values weren’t just tangled up. But incorrectly scaled as well. Brown increased the most. Wasn’t noticeable. Because: The values are so different. Brown [...]

Time and time again, we realize how convenient it is that we can explore our data from so many different angles thanks to the tightly interwoven methods and functions that DeltaMaster provides. This time [...]

The trilogy is complete: We have published sparklines in three different ways on newspaper. That’s reason enough to take a breather – and take stock of our efforts. We now understand why newspapers [...]

Sparklines are eloquent, but monosyllabic. Literally. Dealing with line breaks is anything but easy. We explored these and other challenges in writing with sparklines.

Sparklines are a breathtaking intellectual delight. Especially on paper. Now we have also tried it on newsprint. In Traffic News-to-go.

“Die Welt” recently made a first attempt to use sparklines. Shrunken graphics with dubious references and problematic scales, however, were the result. Too bad! The good news, however, is that the [...]

This is a digital plea for analog media. We don’t just need paper on Fridays. And paper has a long future ahead – and for much more than just wrapping fish.

Hearing is one of our most powerful senses. We can close our eyes but not our ears. If we want to take data analysis to the next level, we must also use our sense of hearing. Anything else would be rather [...]

There is an exception to every rule. Even circles, which we usually blame, are sometimes worthy of acclaim – especially in combination with graphical tables.

Traffic lights in charts are junk. They portray the world in black or white – just using red and green instead. Because they use a bit of threshold voodoo, some people consider them to be an “intellectual” [...]

The German Newspaper "Die Süddeutsche" uses graphic tables in its online edition. They show positive and negative deviations. In the same direction. Here, they always quarrel about that. Pro: It’s [...]

We've already explored a laid-back approach to management reporting. For the more athletically inclined, we have a high-performance alternative. The key? Resolution.

Stock markets are so exciting for the Financial Times Deutschland. Either it's all bullish or altogether bearish. Every day anew. Nothing for investors with cardiac insufficiency who happen to have mislaid [...]

Business charts are losers. Its only good luck if they work at all. He has shown some basic problems of them. With mine here, you need more brains than luck to find the truth. Each series increases [...]

Even though they still have a shred of hope in the UEFA Cup, it is no secret that Nuremberg does not have the best soccer players in the German Bundesliga. The best soccer charts, however, do come from [...]

Every pixel is valuable in Pixelland. The graph below is still pixel-junk on Pixelland's standards. The parantheses waste 30 valuable pixels. The vertical line costs 11 pixels. Empty [...]

I know I can see sparklines. And even hear them. But eat them? As seen in Vienna.

A time-series is a pattern. It climbs upward and descends, patterns are stable or swinging, they change slowly or abruptly. The pattern is more important than the actual values. To understand the pattern [...]

Edward says: Use sparklines. Sparklines are data words. Or word graphics. A number without a history is boring. And can mislead. Even so, newspapers show lots of individual numbers. Deutsche Telekom's [...]

From Sten Nadolny's famous book we can learn that speed does not lead to the goal if it comes along with superficialness - and that slowness is the basic principle of close attention and thoroughness [...]