pleased to come across this, what with my current increased interest in aural-visualisations (if there are such things)

Unlocking the Mysteries of Science by Diana Phillips Mahoney, Computer Graphics World, July 1995.
Scroll to the bottom for other visualisations such as this

mountain plot of ozone pollutant concentrations.

This was alongside (should I say rooted with) a similarly old, but also far from dated piece about
Principles of good GUI Design
which just appeared (without a publication date) on bogieland.com/infodesign