There are many ways to share information and ways to represent data. Example: if you want to share information about how many people live in all the states of then USA, you can create a table like this:

Table data visualisation

State                             number of inhabitants
NewYork             |                                             100
Texas                    |                                               90
California           |                                                80

Infographic data visualisation

You could also create an picture or Infographic with the same data, that might look like this:

Data visualisation of inhabitants per state of USA
2D data visualisation of inhabitants per state of USA

3D print Data visualisation