Text data is the most general form of data, and includes all other data as special cases (e.g., nominal data can be represented as text, as can ratio data, etc.).
In computer science, text is often referred to as strings.
Technically, text data can be thought of as being nominal data. However, in practice, it tends to be data that is yet to be pre-processed and, after processing, will change type. For example, it may be coded and turned into nominal or ordinal data, or it may be numeric data that has been stored incorrectly.
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