
IN THIS CHAPTER
Knowing When Someone Is
Lying to You with a Chart
14
Lying with Perspective
Excel’s 3-D charts all attempts to show a two-
dimensional object on a two-dimensional computer
screen and give the perception that the objects are
rendered in 3-D. Excel provides a lot of support for
the 3-D charts, but I do not cover them in great
detail in this book because they often misrepresent
your data. Hopefully, you will resist the urge to use
them.
I took a photography class once. During the lesson
on wide-angle lenses, the instructor pointed out
that a wide-angle lens makes everything in the fore-
ground look proportionally larger than it is. If you
are shooting ...