Not surprisingly there’s a rough correlation, from Feb 08 to Dec 08, between interest in this article (
) and the price of fuel over the corresponding months (
).
That’s all. Just a tweet, really. Too bad you can’t tweet sparklines!
Update: Bill Zeller’s solution:
Unicode can give you an ugly variant:▁▃▄█▅▇
January 13, 2009 at 11:29 am
Beautiful and useful use of Sparklines.
January 13, 2009 at 2:08 pm
As twittered to John, you can now find a ubiquity command ’sparkword’ that implements Bill Zeller’s solution here:
http://gist.github.com/46562
The value range is very limited, so I chose to make the min value always display the 1/8 char, the max value is always the whole block. To twitter a sparkline with ubiquity, highlight the numbers, ’sparkword this’, then ‘twitter this …rest of your tweet’.
January 13, 2009 at 3:49 pm
In the Tweet I forgot to link here:
http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/1891-Graphical-Sparkline-Microsummaries
January 13, 2009 at 3:58 pm
It’s unfortunate that there aren’t thin bars (that I can find) in the unicode set.
You might be able to use the Braille set as a “dotted bar chart”: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/braille_patterns.html This limits you to four vertical dots though.
January 13, 2009 at 7:24 pm
> a ubiquity command ’sparkword’ that
> implements Bill Zeller’s solution
Thanks for that, and also for the intro to ubiquity, which I hadn’t seen until before.
January 13, 2009 at 7:26 pm
> You might be able to use the Braille set
> as a “dotted bar chart”
Then there’s Chris Gemignani’s even lower-res solution:
http://twitter.com/chrisgemignani/status/1116002404
Seriously, though, the Unicode bars are intriguing.