I noticed this morning that google finance has a new stock screener feature that lets you choose stocks with features in a certain range by way of an interactive sparkline. These are miniature graphs that go inline with text. In this case the graph is a histogram that indicates how much of the stock market falls into each part of the range – this will give one a quick preview how inclusive their search parameters are.
[...] – bookmarked by 6 members originally found by dqlm on 2008-08-25 Google finance’s new stockscreener has sparklines http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/archives/2008/03/14/google-finances-new-stockscreener-has-sparklines/ [...]
[...] Brain Lint notes that Google uses sparklines, “miniature graphs that go inline with text. In this case the graph is a histogram that indicates how much of the stock market falls into each part of the range – this will give one a quick preview how inclusive their search parameters are.” [...]