This paper briefly reviews the history of graphical representations of research findings, and suggests that the rapid advance of published statistics have not been matched by advances in communicating these findings to readers of scholarly publications. In addressing this widening gap between statistical procedures and the communications of results, this paper suggests that methods developed in the mid-20th century deserve to be revisited. It suggests a procedure, Clustered Iconographic Charts (CIX), that enables the simultaneous presentation of multiple variables in an intuitive manner. It situates CIX within the small but growing movement towards ‘open source’ research.