a fun script to create sparklines

fun/spark.nu

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+let TICKS = ([(char -u "2581") 
+              (char -u "2582") 
+              (char -u "2583") 
+              (char -u "2584") 
+              (char -u "2585") 
+              (char -u "2586") 
+              (char -u "2587") 
+              (char -u "2588")])
+
+# send an array into spark and get a sparkline out
+# let v = [2, 250, 670, 890, 2, 430, 11, 908, 123, 57]
+# > spark $v
+# ▁▂▆▇▁▄▁█▁▁
+
+def spark [v: any] {
+    let min = ($v | math min)
+    let max = ($v | math max)
+    let scale = (($max - $min) / 7.)
+    for e in $v {
+        let i = (($e - $min) / $scale | into int)
+        $"($TICKS | nth $i)"
+    } | str collect
+}