#dataaudioization

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Bard Edlund - “The Dow Piano”

Designer Bard Edlund created a music player that converts Dow Jones stock prices into piano music. Each note’s pitch indicates the price, and each note’s loudness indicates the trading volume.

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New York Times - “Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical”

What's the difference between winning an Olympic gold medal by one second or one-hundredth of a second? This interactive from the New York Times lets you listen to the difference between a gold and a bronze medal in various Winter Olympics events like downhill skiing, bobsled and speed skating. 

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Radiolab - “Colors”

In this episode of Radiolab, a choir illustrates what the world looks like for a mantis shrimp, a "little sea creature, who with 16 color receptors, blows the rest of us earthlings out of the water."