{"id":63,"date":"2005-11-09T03:11:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T03:11:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-28T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:44:56","slug":"sparklines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/sparklines\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparklines!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Tufte&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/books_vdqi\">series of books<\/a> on visualisation are essential reading for anyone interested in how to clearly present complex (or not so complex) data in a way that is quickly understandable.<\/p>\n<p>I just stumbled upon another Tufte innovation &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&amp;topic_id=1\">Sparklines<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure if he&#8217;s invented these, or is just coining the phrase, but in any case the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&amp;topic_id=1\">article<\/a> is well worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Tufte&#8217;s series of books on visualisation are essential reading for anyone interested in how to clearly present complex (or not so complex) data in a way that is quickly understandable. I just stumbled upon another Tufte innovation &#8211; Sparklines. I&#8217;m not sure if he&#8217;s invented these, or is just coining the phrase, but in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/sparklines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sparklines!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useful-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}