entHere is a TED talk that I think most anyone would enjoy. It's a presentation by David McCandless, a journalist and self-proclaimed 'data detective'. He presents excellently, just focuses on a couple points and provides plenty of examples. He of course wishes to convey that information is beautiful when it's presented graphically. I wholeheartedly agree. Some lines he said that I quite enjoyed:

"data is the new soil" In that case, call me a data farmer.
"two languages both working at the same time" in reference to understanding concepts and visuals.
"figures are not as true as they could be" that one made me chuckle.
"knowledge compression"   It's incredible thinking about how much information can be presented in a single visualization.

Here's the presentation: