Guest blogger Sam Radakovitz, program manager for Excel, has a post today on a sparklines, a new feature in Excel 2010.
For Excel 2010 we’ve implemented sparklines, “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”, as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful Evidence. Sparklines help bring meaning and context to numbers being reported and, unlike a chart, are meant to be embedded into what they are describing.
As you can see, I’m really excited about this new version of Excel, and specifically speaking: sparklines! Bill Jelen, aka Mr. Excel, and Mike Girvin (Excel is Fun) are as excited as me in this video highlighting sparklines in Excel:
[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNf1zddxuQc:550:0]
This video shows you how sparklines were born into Excel and how they look:
…and you know I think sparklines are awesome, but you can download the Office 2010 Beta and take a look for yourself!
— Sam Radakovitz, Program Manager, Excel