This week’s Gearhead discusses Sparklines, a powerful technique for communicating numeric information. Invented by Edward Tufte, the guru of information display, Sparklines are (in Tufte’s words): ...

Editor’s note: This is the second installment in Ten Behind Office 2010, a series that features the Microsoft employees behind some of the new and updated features in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Sparklines in Microsoft Excel are charts—tiny little charts that display inline with the data because they fit into a cell, usually adjacent to the data they’re evaluating. With a quick glance, not ...

Sparklines are mini charts placed in single cells, each representing a row of data in your selection. But if Sparklines is missing or not showing up in your Excel spreadsheet when opening the file, ...

Data is always more accurate and informative in context. Take Hurricane Harvey, for example. Some parts of Houston had more than 50 inches of rain. But it’s hard to understand just how crazy that is ...

Have you tried to visualize your traffic flows? Did you have the problem that your graphs got really cluttered? Did you find a way around that problem? Did you filter data? Did you aggregate multiple ...

How to turn ordinary sparklines into meaningful information with a few simple formats Your email has been sent Charts are a great visual tool for sharing information quickly–a glance, and the point is ...

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

On a typical microcontroller project we may only have access to a relatively tiny screen. Information display can be a challenge, but it’s one that may be made easier by [0xPIT]’s ESParklines library ...