Monday, April 28, 2008

Sparkline PHP Graphing Library - sparkline.org

Sparkline PHP Graphing Library
Sparklines are "intense, simple, wordlike graphics" so named by Edward Tufte.

Catalog examples of sparklines found on the web

General reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline
http://particletree.com/notebook/sparklines-roundup/


Non-Commercial Implementations:

C#:
http://ewbi.blogs.com/develops/2005/07/sparklines.html

Perl:
http://search.cpan.org/~rjp/GD-Graph-sparklines
http://wotsit.thingy.com/haj/cacti/rrd-stripgraph.html (perl + RRDtool)
http://www.interactiva.com.ar/mariano/?pname=sparklines (perl + SVG)

Java:
http://www.representqueens.com/spark

Excel VBA:
http://excelidees.blogspot.com/ (2 files including user defined functions available for free download)
http://www.spreadsheetml.com/products.html (TinyGraphs - open source Excel add-in for sparklines generation)
http://www.bloggpro.com/?s=nanocharts (NanoCharts - free macro for Excel sparklines)

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