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• Create an in-cell bar graph.
  This is by far the most useful excel tip I have seen in years.
  (tags: excel graph tip lifehack)
• mdr: netbeans.org : Metadata Repository home
  
  This is home of the Metadata Repository project (MDR). MDR implements the OMG’s MOF (Meta Object Facility) standard based metadata repository and itegrates it into the NetBeans Tools Platform.
  (tags: mdr metadata mof cmdb)
• erp4it: An open source, MOF-compliant metadata repository (or CMDB?)
  
  So, you’ve been hearing about XMI and would like to base your company’s metadata practice on open standards. But the entrance price of the major MOF-compliant repositories is too steep? And you have access to a talented Java software engineer? Read on…
  (tags: mof metadata repository mdr)
• Bissantz SparkMaker - Sparklines for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and HTML documents
  
  SparkMaker is an add-in for Microsoft® Office that creates sparklines (mini-graphs) to visualize numerical data in dashboards, spreadsheets, reports and presentations created with Excel®, Word® and PowerPoint®. SparkMaker 4 uses a new “minimized-click
  (tags: sparklines excel tool)
• BonaVista Systems – Sparklines, Dashboards, Charting for Excel and Microsoft Business Intelligence
  
  MicroCharts, winner of the BI Network’s 2006 Data Visualization Competition, enhances Excel, OLAP and standard reporting with powerful, compact visualizations such as sparklines, bullet graphs and other in-cell charts.
  (tags: sparklines graph tufte virtualization)
• More on Excel in-cell graphing - Juice Analytics
  
  We received an enthusiastic response to our post on in-cell bar graphs in Excel. The community quickly explored every edge case. I want to highlight some of the great ideas raised.
  (tags: sparklines graph tufte design)

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