Tufte's Rules for Graphical Integrity

[@9340Steve]

I would say that the lie is even worse than that. The thing that really sticks with the reader of the graph is that the AREA of the region in the front is HUGE compared to the that of the region in the back, i.e., comparing areas rather than segment lengths gives you much bigger numbers than 783 and 14.8. ( Though I think you hit this point later on with the frogs slide).