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Timbral Data Sonification From Parallel Attribute Graphs, Dale E. Parson, Danielle Emily Hoch, Hallie Langley

Computer Science and Information Technology Faculty

Parallel coordinate plotting is an established data visualization technique that provides means for graphing and exploring multidimensional relational datasets on a two-dimensional display. Each vertical axis represents the range of values for one attribute, and each data tuple appears as a connected path traveling left-to-right across the plot, connecting attribute values for that tuple on the vertical axes. Parallel coordinate plots look like timedomain audio signal waveforms, and they can be translated into audio signals through straightforward mapping algorithms. This study looks at three data sonification algorithms, sonification being the mapping of data into sounds for perceptual exploration, similar to …