Sparklines for your shell

C99 implementation: http://git.zx2c4.com/spark/

    git clone git://git.zx2c4.com/spark
    cd spark
    make
    curl -s http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/eqs1day-M1.txt | cut -d, -f9 | ./spark

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6330598

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478

Common Lisp version with some extra goodies: https://github.com/tkych/cl-spark

Edward Tufte (original creator of sparklines) hosts a long-running discussion of theory and practice:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

Nice! A more traditional version of this in the shell that I love to use day to day is bashplotlib: https://github.com/glamp/bashplotlib

Tried to install with Homebrew, got a 500 error. Tried again, got a 503. Third time, got "Empty reply from server".

Bummer, this looked cool.