Visualise data with sparklines in Excel

There are many ways to visualise data in Excel. Commonly, full-scale charts are used, but too many of these can clutter up a worksheet.

An alternative is sparklines. A sparkline is a mini chart embedded in a cell that provides a visual representation of data.

They are useful for casually glancing to spot trends and variations while conserving space.

The process of inserting one is simple.

Select some data, go to the Insert tab, and choose a sparkline type from the following:

1. Line — suitable for continuous data.
2. Column — suitable for continuous data.
3. Win/Loss — suitable for dichotomous data.

The Sparkline contextual tab will appear whenever the active cell features a sparkline. This has various customisation options to fine-tune it.

In the video example, average temperature data is displayed for 10 locations around the world in a calendar year.

Initially, conditional formatting's Color Scales is used to highlight the temperatures shades of red or blue, depending on how high or low they are.

Then, each sparkline type is created in a separate column with the maximum and minimum temperatures shown as darker red and blue blobs and bars.

Sparklines are a fantastic feature to take advantage of!

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