Excel 2010 implements sparklines, “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”, as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful Evidence.
This innovation is accomplished using MCE (Markup Compatibility and Extensibility).
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nice and simple – how about adding these next to your portfolio view – showing delta in price over a defined period of time
Nice – I love Spark Lines, and I’m looking forward to buying Beautiful Evidence book.
I’d also recommend The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte.
If you like Spark Lines, you might like these blog posts about generating them in SQL
http://squilbo.blogspot.com/2008/06/quick-way-to-generate-pretty-charts.html
http://www.tobinharris.com/past/2008/2/28/draw-bar-charts-in-sql/
http://www.tobinharris.com/past/2008/2/28/sql-sparklines/
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