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 graphics”, as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful
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