README.md

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Soundcharts

The soundcharts project aims to make it easy for data analysts to render quantitative data accessible to any hearing person.

Status

This is a work in progress containing only basic "scatterplot" type features. Planned features include:

• Removal of click/buzz artifacts and experimentation with resolution of dense time-series
• Experimentation with tone colors, chords, or stereo to display multiple series in comparison
• More demo datasets, including a sparse/simple demo of some sort and a Covid-19 demo
• Categorical data support for time axis and pitch axis
• faceting? Maybe?

Installation notes

One main dependency is espeak, for text-to-speech labeling.

sudo apt install espeak

Another main dependency is seewave, used for rendering .wav files.

      # install seewave for wav generation
      sudo apt-get install libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev
      sudo apt-get install libsndfile1 libsndfile1-dev
      sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev
      install.packages(c("fftw","tuneR","rpanel", "rgl"), repos="http://cran.at.r-project.org/")
      install.packages("seewave")

Credits

S&P 500 timecourse data were downloaded from Investopedia on Dec 21, 2020. URL: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average-annual-return-sp-500.asp

ekernf01/soundcharts documentation built on Dec. 20, 2021, 4:13 a.m.