PowerPivot and Sparklines .. the easy way
In Excel 2010 MS introduced Sparklines, as described on the Excel blog:
For Excel 2010 we’ve implemented sparklines, “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”, as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful Evidence. Sparklines help bring meaning and context to numbers being reported and, unlike a chart, are meant to be embedded into what they are describing.
Tags: excel, visualisation