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Business Solutions Charts and Graphs for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007
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Business Solutions Charts and Graphs for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007

by Bill Jelen
April 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
480 pages
17h 6m
English
Que
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Deliberately Using Charts to Lie
Some people are just good at lying. In Figure 14.9, for example, sales are increasing. Or are
they? The chart author reversed the categories along the x-axis. The most recent year is at
the left. I bet no one will notice.
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Chapter 14 Knowing When Someone Is Lying to You with a Chart
428
Figure 14.7
Adding data
obscures the mar-
keting excesses.
Figure 14.8
Inferring a trend
based on a two-
point line is danger-
ous.You need to add
more data points to
tell the real story.
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Deliberately Using Charts to Lie
As another example, ...
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