Whilst I have used them in Excel reports on metrics (Bissantz Sparklines plugin) I was (coincidentally) struck by this piece of information design yesterday when browsing a flickr set. The use of sparklines here also demonstrates issues with scale though - as I believe Tutfte points out - scale is less important than trends with this kind of data.
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