Chapter 47. Sparklines
Questions answered in this chapter:
How can you graphically summarize daily customer counts for each of a bank’s branches in a single cell?
How can you modify sparklines?
How can you summarize an NFL team’s sequence of wins or losses in a single cell?
Do sparklines automatically update when new data is included?
Sparklines are exciting graphics that can summarize a row or column of data in a single cell. The term sparkline was first used by Edward Tufte, a famous expert on the visual presentation of data and its analysis. He described sparklines as “data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics.” Microsoft Excel 2013 makes it easy to create amazing graphics that reside in a single cell.
Answers to this chapter’s questions
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