Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them.

The jQuery Sparklines plugin provides a niche solution. It helps generates sparklines – small inline charts, just enough to give an idea of the trends – with bare minimum code.

Visualization choices include line for a line chart, bar for a bar chart, box for a box plot, and a few more. Unfortunately, this isn’t actually documented in the sparkline package help files.

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.

Sparklines: A heads-up display for your data In-cell charts are like a heads-up display for your data, providing an immediate visual context in spreadsheets. The Sparkline feature, introduced in ...

Sparklines are small charts that fit into a single cell in Microsoft Power BI and visually represent a span of time.

VIDEO: Adding mini charts in the cells of your spreadsheet is great feature, which was added to Excel in 2010 but still remains massively underutilized.

Dozens of bullish and bearish live candlestick chart patterns for the Sparkline International Intangible Value ETF.

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 ...