Seeing and hearing data

We as a society are generating and saving more data. But we are also inventing new ways of seeing and hearing what the data has to tell us. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have built what they call the "Allosphere" that allows them to visualize and to hear what the data can reveal that traditional methods of analysis may not. The Allosphere is a two-storey tall anechoic (sound proof) and opaque chamber that contains projectors and speakers that are fed an audio and video stream produced by the many software tools that they are using. The principal faculty member behind the project, Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, presented this 6-minute video at the TED talks that gives several examples of how researchers are using the Allosphere to gain new insights.