As an empirical researcher, I'm constantly thinking of ways to depict complicated statistical information visually. Of course, some people think almost exclusively about this question. Tufte's books

What's so important about depicting information graphically is that so many people have such a difficult time processing numbers. People whose eyes would glaze at numbers in a table suddenly get it when you can make the numbers come alive for them. It doesn't really matter what the numbers say if you can't find a way to effectively communicate them to an audience. Similarly, you can make an audience think your data say something they do not by presenting them in a misleading way.
Is there a figure or chart that you think does a particularly good job of conveying something complicated in an effective way? In an ineffective or misleading way?