Information Graphics In Javascript With Sparklines.js

This post just copies examples from the actual Sparklines documentation.

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

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. ;)

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...

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.

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.

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).