Visual data is much more interesting to look at than reading an article. You can see much more from a colored graph that isn't a typical X,Y axis graph. In this graph that I found, it shows how Leo Messi shoots while on FC Barcelona and his national club of Argentina. From this visual data you can clearly notice where he shot from and the outcome of that exact shot. Numbers and tables would never be able to communicate this type of information. Numbers can't show exactly where he shot the ball from on the field and what was the outcome. It would be very hard to show the places that the ball was shot in a table (it would have to show where exactly on the field with length and width of the field). This graph is a great example of how much easier visual date can be read compared to the old-fashioned table data.