Digital humanities are rooted in text analysis. However, most visualization paradigms use only categoric, ordered or quantitative data. Literal text must be considered a base data type to encode into visualizations. Literal text offers functional, perceptual, cognitive, semantic and operational benefits. These are briefly illustrated with a subset of sample visualizations focused on semantic word sequences, indicating benefits over standard graphs, maps, treemaps, bar charts and narrative layouts.
@article{arxiv.2009.02374,
title = {Literal Encoding: Text is a first-class data encoding},
author = {Richard Brath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.02374},
year = {2020}
}