The finalists and the winner of the bad graph contest are announced. ... Example of a conic graph from Excel. Figure 2 shows a conic Excel graph; the numbers plotted are 2, 4, 6, and 8.

For example, the graph on the right below is not based on '0', and the length of the bar at Time point '2' appears to be about 3 times the length of the bar at '1', but it is actually about 1.6 ...