Learning about sparklines
Sparklines are very small graphics that contain very specific information. Sparklines have few characteristics to configure and are very minimalist. They cannot include axes, labels, descriptions, effects, or numbers. To get a better idea of what sparklines are, here are some examples:
As you can see, they do not contribute any information out of context. That is why their principal role is to accompany the data present in the report, and because of their small size, we can include them in the detail level of our reports!
PRD lets us include sparklines in our reports, granting us the possibility of analyzing the variation of an item's value over time, making specific comparisons, showing what percentage of a total an item's value represents, and so on.
If we compare sparklines with the kinds of charts that we have already seen in PRD, we could erroneously conclude that sparklines display very little information to the end user. But as we saw before, this...
