17. Dashboarding with Sparklines in Excel 2010
One of the new features in Excel 2010 is the ability to create tiny, word-size charts. If you are creating dashboards, you will want to leverage these charts.
The concept of sparklines was first introduced by Professor Edward Tufte. Tufte promoted sparklines as way to show a maximum amount of information with a minimal amount of ink.
Microsoft supports three types of sparklines:
• Line—A sparkline shows a single series on a line chart within a single cell. On a sparkline, you can add markers for the highest point, the lowest point, the first point, or the last point. Each of those points can have ...
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