Sparklines – XLCubed Blog ../../../ XLCubed Blog Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:50:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.21 ../../../wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-logo_512_512-150x150.png Sparklines – XLCubed Blog ../../../ 32 32 Bandlines in XLCubed ../../../2013/01/bandlines-in-xlcubed/ ../../../2013/01/bandlines-in-xlcubed/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:47:43 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=3797 In early January this year Stephen Few introduced the concept of Bandlines. He identified a useful extension to Sparklines, making use of shaded or coloured horizontal bands to provide more information on the context of the trend line itself. See Stephen’s article on Bandlines and the thinking behind them for a detail description. The Sparklines are ideal for […]

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]]> ../../../2013/01/bandlines-in-xlcubed/feed/ 9 Excel Dashboard Competition: Bank Dashboard ../../../2008/08/excel-dashboard-competition-bank-dashboard/ ../../../2008/08/excel-dashboard-competition-bank-dashboard/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:42:06 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=398 This blog post is the first in a series of blog post that features the winners of the 2008 Excel dashboard competition. “A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives; consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a […]

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]]> ../../../2008/08/excel-dashboard-competition-bank-dashboard/feed/ 2 Graphical Table – Abortion Data 1980 – 2003 ../../../2008/07/graphical-table-abortion-1980-2003/ ../../../2008/07/graphical-table-abortion-1980-2003/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:03:48 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=295 Here’s the history of the Abortion data set 1) Jorge used some U.S. Census Bureau data (original Excel file) to visualize the abortion ratio as a small multiples chart, 2) In Small Multiples – Abortion Data 1980-2003, I have written about Jorge’s panel chart. I like the panel (small multiples) chart, but felt that it […]

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]]> ../../../2008/07/graphical-table-abortion-1980-2003/feed/ 6 Graphical Tables – An Alternative to Treemaps ../../../2008/06/graphical-tables-an-alternative-to-treemaps/ ../../../2008/06/graphical-tables-an-alternative-to-treemaps/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:25:26 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=111 Sean blogged the other day about using a treemap to visualize the drivers of the Australian Inflation. He got inspired to create a treemap by an NYT article that used an interactive version of the following treemap: This chart looks nice on the first view. It makes nice use of muted colors, the shapes look […]

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