Hi,
appreciate the reminder of this application. I attended Tufte's
presentation in Chicago probably about 10 years ago. It was one of the
best presentations/seminars I have ever attended. I bought all his
books and really enjoy them.
I am not sure, but "sparklines" seems like it might have stemmed from
his work with "Multiples in Space and Time" which is a chapter in his
book Visual Explanations. In this chapter he has a graphical summary
of a patient status (pg 111). What is really fascinating about this
graphic is how they time align specific dosages, blood levels, chemical
levels, etc. This page is a collection of small graphs for each of
these items. Thus as Tufte explained it, instead of a group of doctors
and medical professionals trying to review a patient's status via a 1"
thick stack of charts and test results, they have a 1-sheet page which
can give them an instant summary of the status. This approach allows
for mind-based data mining to see patterns and trends, etc. And it of
course can be applied to many other areas. If you have not looked at
this, I'd recommend it. Its a well source of ideas for new applications.
Sparklines reminded me of this talk and it also reminded me of
earthquake seismic measurement data.
One caution I would add to sites like petflight.com when reporting this
type of data would be to normalize it based on number of pet flights vs.
injuries. It wasn't clear to me that it was done. Airlines like
American and United will most likely have far more pets flying on them
vs. smaller airlines. We all know that you have to be very careful when
you present data, I see abuses in the news print all them time on how
they report a story with stats. But perhaps I missed that and its
already in the data presentation.
best,
'mark
Alexandra O'Neal wrote:
Excellent! I'm always on the hunt for live examples of good information
presentation. Thanks for sharing :-)
I use sparklines for presentations on metrics-based recommendations, site
SEO reporting, etc. The response has been very positive every time, and the
biggest compliment of all -- others have begun to do the same :-)
Alex
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Elise Edson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi IxDAers... just thought I'd share this neat example of sparklines!
I was looking for pet travel information across the various airlines,
and I was surprised/delighted to see this:
http://www.petflight.com/pet-incidents/airlines
How have you integrated sparklines into your designs?
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