Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Sparklines (15 Nov 2004) Edward Tufte calls Sparkline to “Intense, simple, word-sized graphics”. The reason for this name is the vivid and active role they play within text. Many names have been tried including bonsai graphics, but I prefer the term word-like graphics or just Sparklines to preserve Tufte’s word. Article URL: http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=156&lang=2 Read 159 more articles from InfoVis sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The Right Trigger Words     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy