This big old visualisation from the accurately named informationisbeautiful.net really sums up the reason there are problems trying to satisfy such different mindsets.
Though I’m a sucker for information visualisation I should disclose. Data and concepts such as this can (and should) be interesting.
As an aside, here’s a TED talk showing some pretty funky visualisation:
I posted that up earlier as one of my “ten wow must see TED videos“.

