Summarizing text to embed qualitative data into visualizations

Abstract

Qualitative data can be conveyed with strings of text. Fitting longer text into visualizations requires a) space to place the text inside the visualization; and b) appropriate text to fit the space available. For quantitative visualizations, space is available in area marks; or within visualization layouts where the marks have an implied space (e.g. bar charts). For qualitative visualizations, space is defined in common text layouts such as prose paragraphs. To fit text within these layouts is a function for emerging NLP capabilities such as summarization.