Sonification

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Sonification is the acoustic counterpart of the graphical data representation, i.e. is the representation of data (or system properties, more in general) by means of aural information. the relevance of sonification as analysis tool is motivated by the fact that human ears are used to discover slight changes in acoustic patterns […+]