Sam Radakovitz developed a feature called “sparklines” for Microsoft Office Excel 2010 that lets users transform large amounts of data into small, at-a-glance displays that fit into a single cell.

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Sparklines are word-sized charts that live in individual cells. This great feature was added to Excel in 2010 but still remains massively underutilized. Follow BI ...

Sparklines are word-sized charts that live in individual cells. This great feature was added to Excel in 2010 but still remains massively underutilized. Produced by Sara Silverstein. Follow BI ...

Excel Sparklines If you’re looking to leverage the analysis capabilities of Excel, Office 2010 offers two tools that should help you get the most out of your spreadsheet data.

Sparklines Excel Feature Sparklines were first introduced in Excel 2010 and are used to represent visualizations for the trend across the data in a row.

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