A collection of graphs, charts, and other visualizations of ideas and relationships, in draft and published form. Some impressive examples, which impress in many cases not just because of face value, but back story and implication as well:

All 1,943 Cornell Faculty were asked to respond to the following question:

Of the many charts (graph, map, diagram, table and “other”) you have seen in your life, which has been the most important, remarkable, meaningful or valuable?

On the archival paper provided, they were asked to create a copy of the chart and in the remaining space annotate notable attribute of the data and the image, describe what they remembered about first seeing this image and comment on why they chose this image.

(Via Information Aesthetics.)