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Wilson Miner’s Accessible Data Visualization
By BradStenger | April 14, 2008
Wilson Miner recently wrote a nice how-to on displaying data (even large amounts of data and/or small amounts of screen real estate) using just html markup and CSS. … http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accessibledatavisualization
I’d first thought that Joe Gregorio’s Sparkline Generator (http://bitworking.org/projects/sparklines/) would kickstart widespread use of the in-line, word-size info graphs back when he introduced his webservice in 2005 (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/06/22/sparklines.html). The original idea goes back to a May 2004 Ask E.T. post by Edward Tufte (http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR).
Topics: Info Viz, News Interfaces |