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News 26 January 2013 - Version 2.1.1 Relased This release adds support for jQuery 1.9.0 along with a couple of other bug fixes. If you're using a version of jQuery later than 1.8, be extra sure you're not rendering your page in quirks mode to avoid breaking tooltips for IE users. See jQuery's notes on quirks compatiblity for more info.
Here is a screen capture if you don't have a SVG plugin: Sparklines Sparklines are Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics to display more information than a graph or table could in the same amount of space. Read about them in an excerpt from Tutfe's book . Javascript Who knew this langauge was so cool?
Sparklines , as defined by Tufte , are intense, simple, word-sized graphics. Kind of like this: . I seemed to stumble across them at just the right time, as I have regression tests I am adding to on a daily basis. The result is a flood of information. I believe sparklines may be the answer to my information avalanche.
Edward Tufte introduced sparklines in a sample chapter of his upcoming book "Beautiful Evidence". In his words, sparklines are " small, high-resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, images. Sparklines are data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics ."