Drowning at Sea by Elena Colón-Marrero uses Surface Embroidery to show Colón-Marrero’s “time spent learning how to describe software materials while working at a computing museum. No matter what I did, suggested, or wrote guidelines for there was always another person around to tell me to consider other schemas, taxonomies, and guidelines.”
To add a data angle to this piece (even if it’d necessarily be somewhat vague and impressionistic), one could use size and scale the text of the words based on how often it was recommended, or add some quantity of bubbles to represent that number.