VisualCV is an iconic representation of a person's career, exposing spatio-temporal patterns such as relocations and changes of position, and context information such as a person's impact on her environment. Similar to Tufte's "Sparklines," the visualization does not use an explicit metric, but instead suggests trends and shows patterns. At an individual level, this graphic representation has few advantages over a traditional CV; instead, it is meant for overview and comparison of a large number of CVs�with hundreds of applications, patterns become immediately visible.