Data visualisation seems so old hat these days. Even Wired magazine is begining to ask “What does it sound like?” rather than “What does it look like?” This week, they’re talking about the sound of smiling. (http://www.wired.com/2016/04/smiling-made-noise-itd-sound-like/) But what are we going to call this sounding of stats? “Data audiolisation” sounds uglier than the sound of frowning…
(Originally published by Elizabeth Pisani on April 10, 2016)