Los principios que sigo para la creación de visualizaciones de datos parten de un método que yo mismo elaboré, pensado específicamente para las humanidades digitales, y cuyos principios están publicados en artículo titulado Signos visuales a escala humana23Sergio Rodríguez Gómez, «Signos Visuales a Escala Humana: Una Clasificación de Métodos de Visualización de Datos y Una Reflexión Sobre Sus Alcances Para La Investigación Humanística», Revista de Humanidades Digitales 6 (26 de noviembre de 2021): 64-84, https://doi.org/10.5944/rhd.vol.6.2021.30734.. El método está basado en la triple clasificación de los signos propuesta por el semiólogo y filósofo Charles Sanders Peirce: signos icónicos, indéxicos y simbólicos

they suggest that the use of symbols to model the world developed rapidly between about 20,000 and 10,000 years ago, and has the effect of giving emphasis to analytic thought as the dominant mode of human consciousness. Rather than seeing symbols as the impetus for human logic, they argue for presymbolic elements of logic in Peirce’s sign categories shared widely by humans and other animals.

It is terrible to seehow a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, willsometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain,and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst ofintellectual plenty.

Beatrice Webb, the famous sociologist and political activist, reported in 1926: "'Every one agrees nowadays', observe the most noted French writers on the study of history, 'that it is advisable to collect materials on separate cards or slips of paper. . . . The advantages of this artifice are obvious; the detachability of the slips enables us to group them at will in a host of different combinations; if necessary, to change their places; it is easy to bring texts of the same kind together, and to incorporate additions, as they are acquired, in the interior of the groups to which they belong.'" [6]

There's no inherent meaning in information. It's what we do with that information that matters.

come up with inferences