Comments on: Sparklines in Business Scorecard Manager and PerformancePoint Server Dashboards http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2007/11/09/sparklines-in-business-scorecard-manager-and-performancepoint-server-dashboards/ Dashboard Examples and Business Intelligence Best Practices Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:37:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Robert A. http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2007/11/09/sparklines-in-business-scorecard-manager-and-performancepoint-server-dashboards/#comment-19019 Robert A. Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:18:45 +0000 http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2007/11/09/sparklines-in-business-scorecard-manager-and-performancepoint-server-dashboards/#comment-19019 I guess my problem/question with sparklines (especially when several of them are presented side-by-side like this) is ... what axis/scale is used? Are they all auto-scaled? Are all the sparklines scaled the same (so I can compare them)? Does the (invisible) axis start at zero? Are the data plotted to show %-change, or the actual values? I guess (hopefully) in the context of a dashboard, the person viewing it would know the answers (maybe the details are provided in a "help" button, and this type of detail is suppressed in the actual dashboard to save space). Anybody got some thoughts in this area? :) I guess my problem/question with sparklines (especially when several of them are presented side-by-side like this) is … what axis/scale is used? Are they all auto-scaled? Are all the sparklines scaled the same (so I can compare them)? Does the (invisible) axis start at zero? Are the data plotted to show %-change, or the actual values?

I guess (hopefully) in the context of a dashboard, the person viewing it would know the answers (maybe the details are provided in a “help” button, and this type of detail is suppressed in the actual dashboard to save space).

Anybody got some thoughts in this area? :)

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