Of greg
Sent: 22 October 2009 11:06 AM
To: disc...@ixda.org
Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Sparkline filtering
Any good examples out there of sparkline filtering? I pitched this
concept to Delta 4 years ago and it did not go anywhere. I had yet to
see it until this morning looking for a new
Any good examples out there of sparkline filtering? I pitched this
concept to Delta 4 years ago and it did not go anywhere. I had yet to
see it until this morning looking for a new refrigerator on the LG
site.
http://www.lge.com/us/appliances/refrigerators/index.jsp
Anyone else out there see
Kayak.com has a pretty good example of it in the travel context. I
think I first saw them implement it a couple of years ago.
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46961
When I first saw this post I wasn't sure what a sparkline filter was
so I did some searching and found:
http://sparkline.wikispaces.com/Examples
http://www.readybetgo.com/slots/progressive/ is a good example I
think. (Please correct me if wrong)
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@Greg Thomas:
Greg Petroff is talking about the subtle tick marks above the
capacity, width and price sliders on the left column of
the LG site.
The charts in readybetgo are not sparklines.
From Wikipedia:
The term 'Sparkline' was proposed by Edward Tufte for
small, high resolution
I would call the tick marks on the LG site more of a label or marker than a
filter. For a filter you'd need more multi-variant data so that you could
apply filters to the sparklines. Tufte has got a couple of examples of what
I would consider to be sparkline filtering in his book Beautiful
The tick marks/spark lines are not the filter but rather a result
set hint for existing filters; sometimes an enhancement, sometimes
critical to the filtering interaction. Result set hinting can be
applied to ANY filter mechanism as long as the control doesn't
create a performance hint. It's
