Sparklines

I discovered a fantastic page containing a draft chapter from Edward Tufte's new book via Pensieri di un lunatico minori.

Digging deeper as is my wont I found a whole whack of cool articles about sparklines and their implementations.

http://bitworking.org/news/Sparklines_in_data_URIs_in_Python
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397
http://www.bissantz.de/sparklines/
http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/04/sparkplot-creating-sparklines-with.html
http://dealmeida.net/en/Projects/PyTextile/sparklines.html
http://www.waler.com/flint10.exe

[Update: fixed link to Pensieri di un lunatico minori]