Comments on: Microsoft to patent Tufte’s sparklines?! (Kottke) http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=3137 Blogging at KelsoCartography.com Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Andreas Lipphardt http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=3137&cpage=1#comment-35491 Andreas Lipphardt Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:13:29 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=3137#comment-35491 MicroCharts does exactly what Microsoft patented as early as 2006:
http://www.bonavistasystems.com/
http://www.bonavistasystems.com/NewsDataVis_Winner.html

Andreas

]]> By: nathaniel http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=3137&cpage=1#comment-34364 nathaniel Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:52:23 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=3137#comment-34364 @ Fabrice: thanks for your link! Amerigo and Columbus have the same chicken-and-egg about the new world ;) I’ve updated post to reflect “popularized”.

]]> By: fabrice http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=3137&cpage=1#comment-34363 fabrice Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:48:14 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=3137#comment-34363 I created a Sparklines for Excel function in early 2007 and upgaded it to a free open source add-in in may 2008..>> http://sparklines-excel.blogspot.com/

I am not even sure that Tufte is the initial ‘inventor’ of sparklines, he is however the one who theorized the sparkline concept and published about it.

Cheers

Fabrice

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