From Data Visualization to Data Sonification: What if you could hear flight data?
Airport Beats by Sabre Labs ~ Sabre HackDay 2013.
What if you could hear travel data? What would it sound like?
While I was traveling last week, the rest of the Labs team was busy with Sabre's annual 24 hour HackDay event, pushing itself to take data beyond just visualization as we know & love it today.
The team took flight data over a 24 hour period from five of the busiest airports in the US and experimented with the relatively new concept of data sonification. With so much happening in visualization focused on just one of our senses, the team began exploring how we might as humans begin to consume & interpret data using more than just one of our senses.
And the end result, in the only and first word that came to mind when I first saw this? Awesomecakes. x10.