The Potential of Data Sonification to Find New Trends and Correlations

"Numbers don't have an inherent emotional quality unless you're talking about translating them into frequencies that we can hear, right? And then for some strange reason about being human, like when we get those numbers and interpret them through our ears, we add all these emotional components," she says. "So it is a judgment call ... but there might be a way for it to be useful outside of just representation."