Comments on: Fuel prices, pageviews, sparklines http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageviews/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sparky http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageviews/#comment-163118 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:47:37 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=987#comment-163118 You can tweet a URL, you can tweet a (sparkline) chart: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/line_charts.html#chart_types

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageviews/#comment-126471 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:26:27 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=987#comment-126471 > 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.

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageviews/#comment-126470 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:24:08 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=987#comment-126470 > 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.

]]> By: Bill Zeller http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageviews/#comment-126469 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:58:38 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=987#comment-126469 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.

]]> By: Bill Zeller http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageviews/#comment-126468 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:49:59 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=987#comment-126468 In the Tweet I forgot to link here:
http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/1891-Graphical-Sparkline-Microsummaries

]]> By: Baz http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageviews/#comment-126466 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:08:48 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=987#comment-126466 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’.

]]> By: Eduardo Molteni http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageviews/#comment-126463 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:29:12 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=987#comment-126463 Beautiful and useful use of Sparklines.

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