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Edward Tufte has long had a following of fans in the field of information visualizations. Among his interesting taxonomy of visualization types is the "Sparkline", which he describes as "data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics".

While Tufte originally suggested that computer displays are too low-resolution to effectively make use of Sparklines (vs. printed page), James Dempster pointed us to some work the folks at Splunk have done to join a long line of folks who have given it a go anyway.

The resulting jQuery plug-in is really nice. Now if only they had the ability to overlay two line graphs over the same area using a transparent fill... ;-)

(Oh, and there's also a simple Sparkline generator for Google Charts over at style.org.)