14. Knowing When Someone Is Lying to You with a Chart
In This Chapter
Lying Because Excel Will Not Cooperate
Avoiding Stacked Surface Charts
Asserting a Trend from Two Data Points
Deliberately Using Charts to Lie
Several settings in Excel enable you to either inadvertently or intentionally create charts that are misleading. Many of the popular charting styles do a poor job of representing the underlying data. Don’t get me wrong—the charts often look great, but they do not provide an accurate picture of the data.
This chapter illustrates many of the lies that are easy to incorporate into an Excel ...
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