See image below for reference.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FpRex.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FpRex.png)

When I simply create a column chart of the items in column A, I get what seems like improperly scaled columns? 5 looks like just a line where 10 would seem to fully occupy the vertical height. I believe this would count as a Normalization problem? Correct me if I'm wrong. Anyhow, the solution seemed to be the ADDING of Zero as you'll see in D3. This has its own problem, though: The addition of an additional column - what would have been 4 columns is now 5 (the first one being invisible since it is just 0).

TL;DR: How can I use sparklines wherein I don't have to add additional zero AND STILL retain the normal scaling of columns as in the case of regular column charts (i.e. non-sparkline)?

I could share the link to the sample sheet, if you need them. Thank you.