Sounds good: Argonne researcher represents data with music
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Music sounds better with bacteria: a scientist has swapped graphs for music in order to represent data on microbes
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Scientists often need to find creative ways to present data visually so others can interpret it more easily. Peter Larsen, of the Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S., decided to do something a little different: he represented microbial data with sounds. More specifically, he sonified data relating to bacteria collected from the western part of the English Channel.
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