Creating Text-based Graphs within Excel

Here’s a few nice techniques for embedding mini-bar graphs within table cells. The “bars” are just | characters; the trick is getting the font right, and then all kinds of possibilities open up. Nice work over at juiceanalytics.

The discussion sparked (no pun intended) an exploration of ways to create Tufte-flavored graphs in Excel as well.

posted August 11, 2006 by eric

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