Hi, I'm Alan Smith, Data visualisation editor at the Financial Times.
I've just finished an experimental project at the FT to both visualise
and sonify the historical yield curve - a large dataset of over 100,000
data points. AMA!
Abstract
Hi, I’m Alan Smith, Data visualisation editor at the Financial Times.
I’ve just finished an experimental project at the FT to both visualise
and sonify the historical yield curve - a large dataset of over 100,000
data points. I’ve filmed a step-by-step walkthrough of the project. And
the end product, a combined animated data visualisation and sonification
of four decades of the US yield curve, is available on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQBWcNw6IU . My full article is on the
FT, website: ft.com/music-from-data My work has also coincided with the
the release of a new open source tool funded by Google* that allows
users to make music from spreadsheets. So - is data sonification ready
to be the next big thing in data presentation? Can it bring data to new
audiences such as including the blind/visually impaired, podcast
listeners, and those accessing the web via screenless devices with voice
interfaces. Or is it a simple novelty? Ask me anything! TwoTone app
funded by Google (https://app.twotone.io/) Proof:
https://i.redd.it/pmafgrjd94n21.jpg