Good graphs help convey your insights about the system you have built and/or measure by providing the information your reader needs and wants. Bad graphs can leave the reader baffled, squinting, and drawing the wrong conclusions about your work. While it's not reasonable to expect astonishing insight from every graph, you can always make the readable and easy to interpret.
Morteza Hoseinzadeh's work at Samsung over the summer won the Best Paper Award at IPCCC 2017. The work focuses on optimizing the performance of NVMe storage systems in the cloud. Morteza's collaborators include Professor Ningfang Mi and PhD students, Zhengyu Yang and Janki Bhimani from Northeastern University. Well done, Morteza!