Sparklines
Sparklines refers to a visualization that uses multiple small line graphs that are designed to be read and compared quickly. The goal of sparklines is to render a visualization that can be understood at a glance. You aren't trying to communicate exact values but rather give the audience the ability to quickly understand trends, movements, and patterns.
Among various uses of this type of visualization, you may have seen sparklines used in financial publications to compare the movement of stock prices. Recall that in Chapter 1, Creating Your First Visualizations and Dashboard, we considered the initial start of a sparklines visualization as we looked at iterations of line charts. Here is a far more developed example:
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