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• Super Easy – Tufte Sparklines in Excel 2010

  
  Development in a Blink — Authority: 127
    Excel 2010 makes is simple to create sparklines. From the insert tab on the ribbon select the type of sparkline you want. The Create Sparklines window is where you specify the data to display and the location where you want.   Sparklines Sparklines have few options that allow customization. ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft attemps to Patent Tufte’s Sparklines

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 151
  A new patent application (hasn’t been awarded yet, I believe) from Microsoft bears stark resemblence (in both form and name) to Edward Tufte’s Sparklines.  I don’t think anyone would doubt that Tufte created the popular visualization algorithm, however the inventor list completely excludes him: Radakovitz, ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft attemps to Patent Tufte’s Sparklines

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 151
  A new patent application (hasn’t been awarded yet, I believe) from Microsoft bears stark resemblence (in both form and name) to Edward Tufte’s Sparklines.  I don’t think anyone would doubt that Tufte created the popular visualization algorithm, however the inventor list completely excludes him: Radakovitz, ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft to patent Tufte’s sparklines?! (Kottke)

  
  Kelso's Corner — Authority: 419
  This is total bullsh*t, the US Patent office should not be granting Microsoft patents for basic concepts that are already out in the market place as prior art and infact invented by someone else, namely Edward Tufte. Shame on Microsoft and boo on lazy patent clerks! Thanks Melissa.
  1 week ago

• Sparklines in Excel

  
  MIPRO Unfiltered — Authority: 126
  UPDATE: It seems Microsoft is trying to patent sparklines, so says Edward Tufte himself .  See here for further legal discussion.  Not as tidy as once thought. Microsoft’s Sam Radakovitz on Excel 2010’s sparkline feature : For Excel 2010 we’ve implemented sparklines, “intense, simple, word-sized ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to Make Yourself Happier.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  My First Splendid Truth is: To be happier, you have to think about feeling good , feeling bad , and feeling right , in an atmosphere of growth . Although this sounds like a simple and rather obvious formula, it took me a huge amount of time and thinking to work it out. Even once I’d come up with it, however, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Short Sentence, Artful Sentences

  
  Writing Material — Authority: 126
  This entry is a response to Derek’s post , about teaching the first chapter of Virgina Tufte ’s book Artful Sentence: Syntax as Style in his writing course. I’m not teaching this semester, so I can reflect on the book in that context, but I did want to reflect a little on what a book like this is good for. ...
  3 weeks ago

• All Hail Data Visualization Maps!

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 145
  Via Jessica Palmer we have this from xkcd, which is exellent. Yet another reason to love the Internet. As if we needed another reason, of course. Here is the original Minard map:
  3 weeks ago

• Cheat Sheet: Beyond Advanced Excel

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 126
  OK, so you’re really good with Microsoft Excel.  You can write bi-conditional nested if statements and vlookups that make peoples head spin.  You’re the only person in your tri-county area that can make a dynamic pivot chart with multiple vertical axes that retains its formatting.  Maybe you’ve even created ...
  4 weeks ago

• powers of ten again

  
  Mike Beversluis — Authority: 133
  Cell Size and Scale
  4 weeks ago

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