“In many cases, there are increasing numbers of methods that have huge amounts of data that simply can’t be interpreted visually,” he said.
Take, for instance, the salinity, temperature and depth of the sea. One of Berger’s former graduate students created a way to turn that all into sound using Pacific Coast buoys, giving listeners a chance to hear the “symphony of the sea” and understand more about it as they listen. In another case, Berger is planning to help a Stanford geophysicist who must use vast amounts of data to study how groundwater moves through the earth. By setting the data to sound, Berger hopes the geophysicist can better winnow the precise from the imprecise.
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