Sparklines are in-cell charts in Microsoft Excel that are easy to create and extremely helpful, but they can be more insightful with just a few specific settings.

You can quickly highlight the trends by using sparklines, which are mini graphs of selected data. In the Excel screenshot below, for example, the sparklines in Column F are mini line graphs showing ...

This week’s Gearhead discusses Sparklines, a powerful technique for communicating numeric information. Invented by Edward Tufte, the guru of information display, Sparklines are (in Tufte’s ...